February 2016 in Sapa, Vietnam NOTE: text continues all the way to the bottom of this page SAPA Express ‘bus terminal’ was only a few minutes walk from my hotel so I took a morning walk rather than have them pick me up in a car. I did some serious repacking…
“At least we were lucky with the weather”. I wish. Sadly, not this time. Sadly not me. Everybody talks about the weather. The weather is number one topic in Hanoi these days. Coldest winter since 2007, maybe ever, snow only a few kilometers away. Big Freeze. Cold, cold, cold. Seriously…
Really? I beg to differ. Hanoi isn’t very pretty at first sight. Not all that interesting either. No smiling ladies in straw hats as far as the eye can see. No pagodas. No temples. The ride from the airport was rather gray and dull. If not for a few occasional…
What plan? There isn’t any. Well, I know what I am going to do for the first couple of weeks (one has to start somewhere), but other than that? None. Will decide once I get there. Of course, I do have some general ideas of what I’d like to do…
Travel light, pack light, you always pack too much, guaranteed you won’t even wear half of the stuff you’re bringing, whatever you need you can easily purchase at the location, even the whole new wardrobe if you like; and more of the same … this is what I hear/read in every…
that is THE question… How much information do we really need prior to the arrival at our destination? How many blogs do we need to read or videos to watch? Do we need to be well prepared or learn (discover) along the way? This very question sneaked upon me while searching the…
Among many dozens of countries I visited, there are few that I actually lived in. They are (listed alphabetically) Barbados, Cyprus, Dubai, France, Germany, Poland, Porto Rico, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA. Eleven in all. Not sure if I ever called any of those countries home but I had a place…
Yes, yes, yes I do. Even though (for no particular reason at all) Panama had vanished from my World Map, an accidental viewing of the “Route of Two Oceans,” the second episode of the Scenic Routes Around the World series, not only put Panama back on my map where it…
