I love bags and I'm always on the search for the right one. I don't know exactly what the right bag will look like, but I know it will be comfortable on my shoulders and lots of pockets, and interior space but it will be small on the outside. A bag tardis if you will.... Continue Reading →
Ho Chi Minh City
Made it to Saigon airport and I've already forgotten my new guides name, I really should've slotted a day off into this whirlwind Vietnam tour of mine. It is a fairly clear day, so we hit the usual tourist sites in Ho Chi Minh. Reunification Palace, the War Reminants museum, post office and Notre dame... Continue Reading →
Hoi An
We arrive in Da Nang, after having sat on the tarmac for an hour, due some official looking people in black vehicles blocking our planes path. My guide here for a day is Hue and he is waiting for me. We head to Hoi An which is another world heritage site, and it is teaming... Continue Reading →
Halong Bay
Pictures from my recent trip to Halong Bay. Copyright retained, no use without permission (you know, the usual spiel).
A birthday in Hanoi
I've made my way to Vietnam in time for their New Year celebrations (Têt). Outside the incessant tooting of scooter horns, piano music is drifting upstairs to my room, but after sitting on a plane for half a day the bustle of Hanoi is not bothering me. Especially after a helter-skelter van ride to central... Continue Reading →
Off the grid in Bredbo
It seems that on Boxing Day it has become our habit to pack up and go camping off the grid for a week or so. This year we decided to go into the hills at Bredbo, near Cooma (Southern NSW). The spot we camped at has a speck of phone service if you get up high,... Continue Reading →
Sunday drive…
Along Wombeyan Caves road in the Southern Highlands of NSW Australia, (a road which incidentally, should never be tackled in anything other than a four wheel drive).