Travelling these days is a past time fraught with difficulties war, terrorist attacks and highly volatile financial situation makes you wonder, Why bother? But over the past few decades there has always been wars in Iraq, Central America, South America not to mention Russia imploding in the 90’s.
But in amongst the doom and gloom there …
27 July 2017
What’s happening in my World
At the moment I’m not travelling so I’m in Adelaide working on the websites most days.
Best Flight Deals
USA
Miami to Belize City with United Airlines selected days Sep/Oct US$347
UK/Europe
London Heathrow to Auckland with a stop in Beijing return with Air China some dates in Oct/Nov 540 GBP
Asia
Tokyo Narita to Montreal …
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13 July 2017
What’s happening in my World
At the moment I’m not travelling so I’m in Adelaide working on the website most days.
Best Flight Deals
USA
Los Angeles to Ho Chi Minh City via Shanghai with China Eastern now until end Nov US$540
UK/Europe
Berlin to Phuket return with Qatar Airways shoulder season 350 Euros
Asia
Kuala Lumpur to Hong …
If you are travelling from Adelaide to Sydney and are camping or caravanning and you don’t want to stop in Mildura, then a great option is Lake Cullulleraine.
Lake Cullulleraine is about 50km on the Renmark side of Mildura. It’s quite a small town but the caravan park is located right on Lake Cullulleraine and has …
Moonta on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula is known as Australia’s Little Cornwall. This name was given due to the large quantity of Cornish miners that immigrated to Australia during the mid to late 19th century. This is known as the Cornish diaspora. Today you can see the results of this immigration in the Methodist church’s …
This is a walking tour you can try yourself if you’re interested in bookshops. You might need to divide the tour into a couple days if you’re like me and end up walking around for 2-3 hours in one shop.
However, a lot of the shops have certain specialisations so you can miss a few shops …
In this post I’m going to give you some details about how to do a fantastic pub crawl through London. You’ll need to do this London pub crawl in the day because some of the pubs in the city will close early.
Also you’ll need a Zone 1 tube pass as you’ll need to travel by …
There are a lot of articles over the internet that give recommendations about what you should buy or what you need when travelling Europe and the world when it comes to mobile phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and other devices.
Firstly for USA readers when I refer to a mobile or mobile phone I’m referring to a …
Visiting Paris soon? One way that travellers can save money is by pre-purchasing a Paris Pass.
The Paris Pass is a sightseeing card which gives holders FREE ENTRY to over 60 sights and tourist attractions in Paris.
Customers simply pay the once off price for the Paris Pass of their choice (there are three durations to choose …
Visiting London soon? One way that travellers can save money is by pre-purchasing a London Pass.
The London Pass is a sightseeing card which gives holders FREE ENTRY to over 60 sights and tourist attractions in London.
You pay a one off cost for the pass and then you are able to visit as many of the included …
Now that I’ve been here a few weeks started to try and get a few things done to make day to day life a little easier.
So my task for the day was to sort out local SIM and to try and get my mobile fixed – I smashed the screen 3 days before I left …
I spent yesterday afternoon as guests of a Hoi An Homestay – Orchid Garden Homestay.
Orchid Garden Homestay is located on Cua Dai Road halfway between Hoi An Old Town and Cua Dai Beach. The homestay is a collection of 11 bungalows so it probably better classed as a boutique hotel or self contained units than …
After hearing how the past month how the monsoon hasn’t happened this year the weather has broken.
Last night the rain was so heavy it woke me up. It’s rained pretty much all day today as well.
Which is just great by me because I hear that my home town is suffering with 4 x 40C days …
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After the mayhem of travelling getting on and off planes making sure you were in the right place at the right time with your passport in hand, the last few days has been a welcome change of pace.
Coupled with attempting to overcome my injuries incurred moving furniture a week ago I’m now a little more …
I’ve been to Singapore a number of times now and generally stay in the same place each time and invariably end up at Newton Circus to eat or a couple other places that I know.
A couple of weeks ago I read an article about the Tiong Bahru Market and thought I’d give it a try.
So …
This is a small guide to help the first time visitor to eating cheap in Singapore.
If you are a backpacker or travelling on a tight budget where you eat can make a huge difference to how much you spend as a traveller.
This is particularly true in Singapore. If you eat in the tourist areas or …
The tours to Armenia and the beautiful old region Nagorno- Karabakh are becoming popular day by day. This area amazes by its old and difficult history, colorful traditions, exotic national dishes and, of course, a huge number of attractions. In this article you’ll be able to have a closer touch with this amazing country and …
A trip to Vietnam is not complete without visiting Hoi An, a Unesco World Heritage Site. While not being a large town (120,000 people) there are plenty of things to see in Hoi An and you can easily spend 3 days
seeing the major sights, most of all enjoying the local cuisine that includes some fantastic …
The final leg of the Reunification Railway and the terminus is Ho Chi Minh City. The journey started in spectacularly dodgy style. I get to Nha Trang railway station nice and early and I go over to the desk and the woman on the desk checks my ticket and says for me to wait in …
The train trip south to Nha Trang was another overnight sleeper trip. This time it was our first encounter with Vietnam Rail First Class Sleeper Air-Con. It was pretty bad. Despite labor being so cheap in Vietnam they appear to not want to worry about leaving dirty sheets on beds and as one person leaves …
The trip to Hoi An (or actually Danang because the train doesn’t go to Hoi An) is the highlight of the train trip – the Reunification Express. It passes through an area where the mountains meet the sea. White crescent shaped beaches dot the coastline and the train cruises above the beach.
Well that’s what its …
After leaving Hanoi we had our first experience of the Reunification Express. We were in the Livitrans carriages – the most expensive and the first impression we got – cockroaches and plenty of them! Anyway other than the cockroaches it was an uneventful and uncomfortable trip.
Arriving in Hue was a nice culture shock because the …
Our trip to Sapa began at Hanoi and our train trip to Lao Cai near the Chinese border. We decided to take the Sapaly Express the highest price option.
The train to Lao Cai has a number of different names but are the same train.The train was borderline comfortable, the trains in Vietnam are certainly not …
After the first evening in Hanoi we were able to start exploring the area. We were staying in the Old Quarter which was a labyrinth of lanes with all types of vehicles using them from coaches to cyclos to pushbikes. The people seemed to have a system based on anarchy when they were driving but …
As with most travelling, particularly when you travel by plane the “getting there” is not what you enjoy. Here is a rundown of the last couple days.
I left Adelaide on Saturday 17 March, it was an afternoon flight on Malaysia Airlines to Kuala Lumpur. I watched a couple movies – exciting stuff.
My overall impression of …
The ambulance hadn’t been fairing well over the last few weeks and a few problems had come up at the border. Lucky we had time: apparently only 6 cars would be allowed through each hour, and we were at least 3 hours back in line. The cold woke us all early that morning and through …
We woke up to the sound of kids washing our ambulance, thanks boys, and headed into the border. 8 Stops or so later and we were through into our next country. One of the soldiers asked the usual question “Do you have any guns?” and make guns with his fingers he made pew pew noises …
“If” is a funny word… If we hadn’t have stopped for lunch, If we had’ve stopped for a swim, If we hadn’t have seen the truck crash. If we didn’t stop for dinner the night before.
If, If, If. All things turned out well though and after our drama we met up with a couple of …
For sheer WTF value Turkmenistan is off the charts! The border should have been a warning for us. 5 hours through here for what was essentially a big show with no real substance. I changed some money into the local currency and the mono-browed angry, clenched woman behind the desk wouldn’t accept any of my …
Next came the Iranian Border: and it was very easy. A Turkish gentleman who just likes to help and practices his language skills by getting travellers through the border made the ordeal through the Iranian border a breeze.
A cursory check of the vehicle by bored officials and then into the Persian side where I was …
Hey there again!
I just wanted to mention a couple of things and maybe explain a few things a little better for you:
I’m not a lonely planet kind of guide. So you may find my blog a little short of detail sometimes. But I have to tell you that I’m trying to give you a snippet …
The next morning we woke to a great day (it wasn’t sunny of course, in the UK if it’s not raining it’s a great day) and were approached by Cameron and Sean, a couple of guys from another team whose Ambulance broke down, to see if they could tag along. Sure! We managed to get …
