Laos and Phu Quoc – January 2026
2026 has been the year of travels to Laos. In mid-January we traveled via Singapore. We had not stopped in Singapore for quite a while so we stayed a couple…
Hanoi – long weekend
We were lucky enough to be able to schedule a long weekend in Hanoi before year-end. Looking back it had been 7 years since we were last in Hanoi. At…
Saigon, July 2019
We took full advantage of the Lao Women’s Union public holiday to have a long weekend down in Saigon. We arrived into Ho Chi Minh early evening, and the immigration…
Saigon, very nice to return
We headed down to Saigon for the weekend, go down Saturday, come back Monday. A short break, but we managed to pack quite a bit in without running ourselves ragged.…
World Famous in Sapa
Although Andrew had not sent out a press release advising he would be in Sapa, his fame seemed to have preceded him. In the market he was approached by a…
Sapa
We arrived in Lao Cai (a border crossing point into China) at 5:30am and needed to find a mini-bus to take us 1 hour up into the hills to…