It’s incredible the difference a few years makes – OK, so last time I was in Saigon perhaps was also a completely different ‘type’ of holiday, but nevertheless just the drive from the airport to the hotel, it was incredible
The challenge of beating the infamous Duc Vuong Hotel in Saigon, my previous lodgings back in 2009 at which I attended a family party from which I still haven’t fully recovered, was always going to be monumental. So, when it
It’s been 7 years since I was last in Vietnam and one thing that I remembered well from the previous time; the absolute massive pain in the ass of getting a Vietnam visa! I never understood this – why do
The worst train journey of my life, and one which continues to come up periodically in my worst nightmares was from an Indian station called Madgaon to Trivandrum. Prior to the journey, I’d been staying for a few nights in
It's 6:20 in the morning and I'm due to fly out on a flight at 8:50 for Kuala Lumpur. But for now, that doesn't matter – I'm deeply asleep and have been since I went to bed 1 hour and
As usual I've managed to lose track of time while travelling and forgot to write. Actually that's a lie straight off – I remembered, just haven't found time to sit down and I'm finding more and more that nothing affords
Ah, Hanoi. The flight to get here involved 3 schedule changes, a lot of bumping around for the best part of 2 hours and having to allow my shoulder become 'part-time pillow' for the two sleeping Asians on either side
Having evacuated from China just over 2 short weeks ago, it was with borderline trepidation that I boarded a flight back from the relative safety of Frankfurt bound for Bangkok, via Bahrain. The 'via' in that sentence is of crucial