Welcome to Paradise. … is how Bali is advertised. So, we decided to go and see if it’s true… My friend Nikki was visiting me from Finland, and we decided we wanted to do a beachy trip out of Vietnam. What better place than the idyllic, famous Bali. We only had a stint from Monday […]
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An Ode to Milk Tea
Some late night poetry inspired by the joyous experience of MILK TEA SOUP… Oh Milk Tea, Oh Milk Tea, How I adore to have you within me, The way your bubbles squelch so gloriously, and your condensed milk adds to the taste so scrumptiously The way the sprinkles on top add a bit of controversy […]
Hanoi, the turtle and the donuts
Xin chào mes amis!! Yes, yes, long time no see. That shall be rectified today… So, HANOI. 🙂 I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about Hanoi before going there. When first thinking about moving to Vietnam, I had half-heartedly considered moving there, but then the simplicity of travelling from Saigon, the apparent […]
Two days in the gorgeous Hoi An
Hoi An was a stunner. All of our’s favourite destination on this trip. Yes, Hoi An is becoming a tourist trap and was packed with tourists but, you know what? We were tourists. And we enjoyed it. It was amazing. Hoi An is a World Heritage Sight and “an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East […]
Crazy, cold, colourful, canyony Dalat
Our first stop on our 10-day whizz-tour through Vietnam was Dalat City, about 300 km from Ho Chi Minh City. A pretty, hilly town, with a stunning lake and surroundings, many cute cafés and restaurants, Dalat is a get-away for many Saigonese and an increasing amount of foreign visitors who want to escape the eternal heat […]
Roadtrippin’ Langkawi
Langkawi is an archipelago of 104 islands right at the north of Malaysia, near the Thai border. (I only now found out it is officially 104 and not one island, but we spent most of the time on the mainlandy island.) It means island of the reddish-brown eagle and it was traditionally thought to be […]
KL monkeys and KL towers
SALUTATIONS MY LOVELIES, So, Kuala Lumpur, or as DA LOCALS say, KL, was definitely an amazing city and a very cool experience. But so what must one do? Well, if one has only two days, as we did, I will tell you… Visit the Batu Caves. A quick twenty-minute train ride from our local […]
The travel “queues” of Malaysia
Selamat Datang! Two weeks ago it was the famous TET, ie. Lunar New Year (ie. Chinese New Year, but it is celebrated in many South-East Asian countries so…), meaning a week off work. Me and my Portuguese friend Patricia decided to go to Malaysia. Why Malaysia? Why not Malaysia. It has twin towers, beaches, […]
The Elephants of Ayuthaya
I had wanted to leave Bangkok, and a place called Ayuthaya an hour away sounded promising – the ancient capital which housed thirty-three kings in the Middle Ages, ruined by the Burmese. It was a town with ruins of old temples spread about – sounded exciting and historically enlightening! I went there with fellow-hosteller Dan […]
Top 10 of Bangkok
One week in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster… I can feel an angel sliding next to me!! In all fairness, I did sometimes feel like an angel, the guardian version, whilst walking down Soi Cowboy with any of my guy friends. The, krhm, bar girls rarely harass guys who have a girl with them… Well, usually […]