China, G Adventures
I’m pausing in my story telling as we sit in a truly shite hotel having arrived from an overnight train this morning and endured a stupidly rushed day, while I contemplate getting on yet...
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Shanghai, China, Day Six & Seven
Day 6 started with an OOOOH and an EEEK as we overslept and only woke up at 8.13am and had to meet everyone at 9am, our bed was so comfy I could have slept...
Shanghai, China, Day Five
Day five started as day four ended, pretzelled in a narrow bunk gently swaying from side to side on the overnight train to Shanghai. The night had been punctuated by Ma on the bottom...
Beijing, China, Day Four
It is lovely being in China again, although frustratingly I confess to having a few issues with our G adventures tour. The itinerary changed a week before we left to a marginally less appealing...
Beijing, China, Day Three
Day three started with delicious fluffy bread and lovely hot tea in our room, not a bad way to start the day, after which we headed down to the lobby to meet the rest...
Beijing, China, Day Two
Day 2 started with stale buns from the Maxims bakery attached to our hotel. In ten months of travel staying almost exclusively in hotels that cost less than £20 a night we’ve rarely stayed...
Beijing, China, Day One
Being the great explorers that we are our first day in China was spent getting to know the vast malls that surround our hotel. I know I know but in our defence we are...
Hoa Lu, Tam Coc, Oh Vietnam you Beauty
I knew it wouldn’t be long before we fell back in love with Vietnam and indeed it was not. Today we joined a Go Asia tour to the ancient capital of Vietnam, Hoa Lu...
Six week Vietnam itinerary
I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while now… Six weeks sounded so long when we began planning, I thought we’d be able to do everything, and yes of course we might...
Alova, Ha Long Bay, a cautionary tale
Ha Long Bay is beautiful, whoever you go with it is still going to be beautiful! We were lucky to have the quite wonderful company of Northerners, Sharon and Chris, Irish Megan and Keith...
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