What is it really like to fly Southern China Airways? Too early to see a pension, we are careful when we travel. We no longer seek out five-starLuxury in all-inclusive resorts, we travel with 40-litre backpacks and rely on Booking.com toprovide us with ‘on the move’ accommodation.Because we base our exit from two of the…

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We crept over the border from Cambodia. We were looking for something. Not cities or nightlife. We had seen a lot of Temples over the last two months. Looking for insight. For an idea. A feeling. For an indication of how things might have been in Vietnam fifty years ago. We had spent most of…

One of the problems with the ‘no plan plan’ is that there isn’t any sort of plan. I know that sounds obvious, but sometimes constantly moving is exhausting. You are always planning a few steps ahead. We had already found ourselves in Ho Chi Minh City, where we needed its transport links. Thrust from there…

The draw of the beach at An Bang was so strong. Before we knew it we had stayed eight days instead of the originally planned five. It was a great place to celebrate the New Year and wait for things to return to ‘normal’. We didn’t want to leave the beach, but we had to…

We arrived in Hue. Tired from the overnight train. The train was fine, mostly empty. We chose to take sleeper seats rather than a sleeping berth. This was because berths in Vietnam were in groups of six. Our last long sleeper in India with Four Berths taught us that if you share your berths with…

Like all things in life, travel is subjective. Following the advice of other travellers, we found ourselves in Cat Ba. I was disappointed. We came to Cat Ba because it is widely advised that this place is quieter than Ha Long. The cruises are in a much more peaceful area of the beautiful limestone islands….