There’s no doubt about it, visiting the Galápagos Islands is expensive. The flights and entrance charges alone are a bit of a killer so unless you’re on a huge budget you need to find some freebies when you get...
Island hopping down the west coast of Thailand
After 2 months of busy, full on travelling in Sri Lanka and Vietnam, we decided we needed to chill for a bit. And what better way than to spend a few weeks island hopping down the West coast of...
Santiago Chile, our first taste of South America
Santiago Chile, our first taste of South America. It made a pretty easy starting point. It’s a safe, relatively clean, structured city with great transport systems, really nice areas of bars and restaurants and really friendly people. It eases...
Around Santiago to see thermal springs, mountains, walks and wine tours
After a few days in Santiago we decided it was time to explore the countryside so as I mentioned in an earlier post we hired a car and headed off to travel around Santiago to see thermal springs, mountains,...
Mui Ne for the beach, but hold on, where’s the beach?
After the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh city, we decided a bit of beach time was needed. The most popular beach north of Ho Chi Minh is one called Mui Ne. It was listed in the top...
Ho Chi Minh City; M is for motorbikes and more motorbikes
When we left Vietnam we bought Dervie, our 3 year old a really nice alphabet book; the A to Z of Vietnam. We all laughed when we came to the letter M as we just thought it perfectly summed...
Bangkok for a few days
We left Sri Lanka at the end of January and headed to Bangkok for a few days before going to Vietnam. Ro and I had spent a few days in a Bangkok back in the year 2000 and remembered...
Hikkaduwa; Turtle hatcheries, Tsunami memorials and Surfing
We ended our month in Sri Lanka with a complete wind down week on the beach in Hikkaduwa. We possibly spent too long there but gosh it was nice… We did very little and enjoyed every second of it...
Sigiriya, climbing the rock
After a lunch of “short eats” in Dambulla we hopped on a bus to Sigiriya. Short eats are basically pastries, some sweet, some savoury. The waitress brings a selection of them on a tray, you eat what you like...
Dambulla cave temples
After Kandy, the plan was for a bit more culture so we headed further north to the Dambulla cave temples and Sigiriya. We got the bus from Kandy which goes to Dambulla. I don’t think there’s a lot to...