Blogs from Southeast, Vietnam, Asia - page 7

A later start & easily the hottest day to date. The riding part of the day was a repeat 40 km morning ride and a 20 km afternoon ride. Lunch split the rides & was a delicious vegetarian hotspot at a Buddhist temple. The whole day was easy riding and mainly followed the coast although being the last ride together for this tour the afternoon ride turned into a fast sprint. The group has been one of the most harmonious I've ever been on with a lot of fun memories. After riding we transferred to our bus for the final few hours into the bustling metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and a final group dinner at Koto restaurant ( a hospitality training school for disadvantaged & at-risk youth in Vietnam). The city was previously ... read more

Hi happy readers Well after a restful sleep it was time to plan our week out. With a couple of tours now booked for mid week we decided today we would do something different. We organised With the front desk to book some Cyclo’s (Rickshaw) for us for the afternoon. We needed one each so they agreed to come collect us as apparently there are some suburbs they are not allowed into I guess due to the heavy traffic. So we had lunch then at 1pm we agreed on a price for 2 hours and off we went a half hour trip one way across the city to the Women’s Museum. After all the war stories and sites we had been to I thought this might show a different side to the local women and how ... read more

Sorry folks. I wrote the final instalment the night we got back. I was tired, and it seems I didn't hit "Publish." Two days later, I realised that it hadn't gone out, so I put a couple of sentences in at the start to explain and apologise, and apparently (although I'm sure I did), apparently I didn't "publish" it again. So I'm back again, explaining and apologising. The sentences I added at the beginning of that 'final' post don't seem to have been included, maybe because it won't let me lie about the date of writing, I dunno. So that was it. Here is your closure. Peace.... read more

It's just under two weeks until we leave for Japan, and I thought I should find a website that I can use for my blog which will then become a book/photo album. I'll give this one a try. I hope someone will read it... The preparations so far: I have bought a new suitcase. A nice hard one, that rolls on four wheels. We have an old soft one that has two wheels, but I think it's been repaired once already, and I don't trust it any more. (Stephen can use that one!) Also, we have put pieces of paper on the wall to remind ourselves of a) things to get done before we go; b) things we must do in the final week; c) things to remember to take, d) things to do over there; ... read more

Our 9am bus ride from Phom Penh to Ho Chi Minh was a relatively straight forward and well organised one for a change! Apart from turfing our rucksacks out at the border, being shouted at to collect them, and then put them back in the same luggage compartment they were turfed out from, we arrived safe and sound. We wondered from the bus drop off point into an area that seemed to have the most hotels in search for a cheap place to stay and found a little hotel called Madame Cuc. Once we'd checked in and showered we popped out for food and headed for the highly recommended on trip advisor "NonlaGuys". The reviews conjured up fond memories of Sheffields "street food chef" and so drooling and excited for some Mexican street food we placed ... read more