We were upgraded to a luxury cabin on the boat!

November 28th 2010
After being content with looking at other peoples photographs of Halong Bay we have finally made it here ourselves. After a few days in crazy Hanoi we were more than ready to move on. We boarded our luxury boat around miday to set sail thru'the maze of limestone karsts to Cat Ba Island. We were to spend one night on board the boat and one night in a hotel on the island. We were pleasently su ... read more

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Stan and Sheila woolley

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We both travelled and worked in Spain, which is where we first met, back in 1971. Things back then were quite different, no plastic card banking or internet to smooth the way. Our travels were put on hold for a few years whilst we brought up our two children. They now spend large chunks of their life exploring the world. In in our mid to late 50's we decided it was time we took up travelling again and this time write our own travel blog. Hope it can compete with the younger generations. We chose the nickname 'still crazy' because I guess that's what we are, still crazy. We completed three... full info

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