After getting married in September 2009, my wife and I took a year to travel the world. It was an amazing time and though it cost us a year off work and a lot of money, I do not regret it for a minute. What I would regret however would be if we had not [...]
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Singapore
After the bustle and third world existence of Vietnam, we really went to the opposite end of the spectrum when we hit Singapore. This is a near Utopian society, and famously a place where chewing gum is illegal. Driving to our hotel from the airport we were struck by how neat and tidy everything was. [...]
Hanoi
We spent a total of six nights in Hanoi, three either side of our Ha Long Bay trip. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, located in the north of the country. After the fairly quiet nature of Hoi An, Hanoi was very busy and a bustling city. Hanoi is quite a sprawling city, but the [...]
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
After 3 nights in Hanoi (see next update) we headed to Ha Long Bay for our cruise. This was about a four-hour drive from Hanoi. Driving in Vietnam is different to the rest of the world. There are no rules. People ignore traffic lights and road directions, and mopeds, which are the equivalent of family [...]
Hoi An, Vietnam
For some reason my Bali update came through in email with white text. Click here to read it if you missed it. We flew to Hoi An, our first stop in Vietnam, via Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Due to time and money limitations, we decided to skip Ho Chi Minh City as we’d [...]
Kuala Lumpur – Short Stop
As we needed to pass via either Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to get to Vietnam using budget airlines, we thought we might as well have a couple of nights in Kuala Lumpur rather than just passing through. This didn’t give us very much time to get a feel for Malaysia, but it did allow a [...]
Bali
Unlike other parts of our trip Bali was always going to be more of a holiday than travelling experience for us. This meant that we didn’t do that much other than enjoy the culture, food, beer and relaxing. When we had booked our accommodation in Bali, we had found that it was peak season. The [...]
North Island As…Bro
(That’s our hire car on 90-mile beach – if only we had a four-wheel-drive we could have driven to the top of New Zealand!) The title of this post is reference to colloquiums of the good people of New Zealand. ‘Bro’ and ‘Sweet As’ adorn adverts, t-shirts and Aussie sitcoms. Wellington After a 3 hour ferry [...]
Downunderer, New Zealand’s South Island
As Australia was costing us so much money, we reluctantly decided to cut that portion of our trip short and head to New Zealand early. This saw us flying out on the 15th June. Our flight was an early one and Andy had kindly arranged to give us a lift on his way to work. [...]
Australia!
I know that it has been a long time since my last update. There are two reasons for this; we’ve been moving around a lot and we’ve been enjoying ourselves. Here’s what we did in Australia. Sydney We landed in Sydney and where well and truly back in the first world. Not that Argentina felt [...]
