After our plans were changed at the last minute due to Typhoon Kanjiki there were concerns that our flight from Hanoi to Da Nang would be affected or even cancelled. We arrived at Hanoi Airport expecting the worst but everything went according to plan apart from a minor delay on departure. An hour later we … More Vietnam 2025 – Hoi An, another wonderful UNESCO site
The precinct of Ninh Binh sits proudly in the North of Vietnam, around 2 hrs drive south of Hanoi. It’s a mesmerising area with so much deep history and culture that we just had to visit. It’s known as “Halong Bay on land” due to the dramatic limestone formations surrounding gorgeous waterways. It is a … More Vietnam 2025 – Ninh Binh, a UNESCO site
We’ve been wanting to get to Vietnam for many years but the timing was just never right. Well this year everything fell into place thanks to our friends at APT – so we spent the night before our flight at the Sydney Airport Rydges Hotel which is so very convenient. And with the rooftop bar, … More Vietnam 2025 – Hanoi, the Nations’ Capital
About 18 months ago, Karen and I couldn’t decide where to go on our annual holiday nor did we want to pay the obscene post COVID airfare prices so on the spur of the moment we invested in a little camper trailer. This gave us the opportunity to explore our gorgeous homeland for short or … More A weekend from Mollymook to Merimbula
We left Nashville mid morning and took a leisurely drive south west toward the Rock and Roll Music Mecca of Memphis. We were so excited 👏👏 Beautiful meandering old highway driving as opposed to crazy freeway madness added an hour or so to the trip but tripled the enjoyment. Passing through tiny towns and villages … More The Southern US Roadtrip – Part Three – Rock and roll heaven – Memphis, Tennessee – 2024
We collected our trusty vehicle in Nashville – a means of conjuring 28 days of road trip memories ahead of us. After a significant stuff up at the car depot due to an over zealous and meticulously painful booking agent we eventually – about three hours later – departed with a lovely new Nissan Rogue … More The Southern US Roadtrip – Part Two – In search of the liquid Gold – 2024
An early morning four hour flight from Los Angeles had us arriving at Nashville International Airport mid afternoon to 38 degree c temps. And so it remained that temp for the next four weeks. We’d pre booked an apartment just on the outskirts of downtown Nashville within easy walking distance to lots of sites. The … More The Southern US Roadtrip – Part One – On the Road Again starting in Nashville – 2024
Check out some of the fun we had on our latest adventure to the USA chasing music, food and beer which we took in August/September 2024. We’d been wanting to tick off this roadtrip for many years and this year everything fell into place. 6 weeks away and four weeks on the road from Nashville … More The Great Southern American Roadtrip – 2024
After our friends – Peter and Julie’s – daughter got married in Italy in 2014, Pete and Julie decided to up stumps in Australia, retire and move to Italy to be close to their daughter Rachel, Son in law Giuseppe and Grand Daughter Zoe. So, in September 2018 they took the plunge and moved, and … More They said we’d be bonkers to go to Honkers
The ferry trip across from Crete to Naxos was ok. We traveled on a SeaJet Champion vessel, which is a fairly large catamaran, that has multiple levels, and also two car parking levels. The prediction of rough seas had a few fellow passengers a bit nervous, but what can you do? The seating area is … More Sailing round Naxos
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