Sunday 25 September - MAI CHÂU - Hanoi Wake up several times during the night, partly because that isn’t unusual, and partly because of a bloody rooster who doesn’t know how to tell the time. And each time I do, it’s raining, which makes me think of what lies ahead, when we leave Mai Chau … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 19
Saturday 24 September - MỘC CHÂU - Mai Châu The alarm in my head goes off around 7.30am, and we’re downstairs by 8.00am. I think it’s fair to say we have the routine down pat, now. Outside, and it looks, both in appearance, and because I heard it, like it’s been raining most of the … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 18
Friday 23 September - MÙ CANG CHẢI - Mộc Châu Up around 7.30am, which is the good news. The not so good news is that it’s taking a while for my muscles to overcome the issues associated with sleeping on another bed that consisted of one of those ‘concrete’ mattresses. The other not so good … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 17
Thursday 22 September - Tú Lệ - Mù Cang Chải Up around 7.30am, and the first thought is to try and stretch various muscles that aren’t overly enamoured with having had to lay on something for 8 hours, that can’t be depressed by a standard human body. While the muscle aches may also be … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 16
Wednesday 21 September - Long Cốc - Tú Lệ Well, go to bed early, more often than not, you’ll get up early. But there’s a difference between going to bed, and actually going to sleep, with the sleep thing taking far longer than I would have liked. Perhaps a combination of wondering if there … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 15
20 September - hanoi - Long Cốc Awake just after 7.30am, giving the alarm a reprieve from doing its thing by mere minutes. Remaining bits and pieces packed up, sunscreen applied, after recalling what happened on the first day I spent with Toan five years ago, on our trip up North, and just as we’re … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – Trip Report 14
It's finally happening again! 2022 arrived, and while Covid lockdowns appeared, hopefully, to be a thing of the past, the new year didn’t feel that much different to the previous two. Overseas travel not only still seemed an impossibility, but it also felt like it would be that way for significant time to come. Vietnam … Continue reading Vietnam 2022 – The Planning
3 October - Hanoi - Ninh Binh Wake to the sound of an alarm. Which I guess is a positive, seeing as I wasn’t laying there awake waiting for it. It’s 5.00am. And yep, it’s painful. Damn beer corner. Damn beer. Damn friendly tourists. Damn late nights. But I wouldn’t change any of it, for … Continue reading Cambodia / Vietnam 2019 – Trip Report 29
The Planning..... Seriously, how did we get here? And not just to planning a fourth trip, but to planning a trip that is going to involve things that we could never have imagined way back in 2014, when on the initial adventure. Interestingly, there was never any thought that there was to be a subsequent … Continue reading Cambodia / Vietnam 2019 – The Planning
12 October - Ba Be Lake - Hanoi Just for a change, up early again to get myself organised. Yep, it’s here. The end of the Northern adventure. While I didn’t want it to end, I’m kind of ready to get back to some normality. It will be nice to slow down a little, get … Continue reading Vietnam 2017 – Trip Report 11
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