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Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2

Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2

Our last day in Vietnam. We have a decent hotel breakfast. Not the best, but they have an omelette chef and cereal and a few other staples, so we are set up well for the day. The tour guide picks us up at 8am ready for our trip out to

Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1

Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1

We've got an early start for our flight to Ho Chi Minh City today. We get a taxi to Da Nang International Airport, about a 50 minute ride which cost about $25 AUD (less than the rort that was the cyclo ride in Hanoi). We line up to

Hoi An - Day 2

We're slowly starting to recover from our colds, so its time for some walking! The sun is out for the first time this trip, so we are keen to go and explore some other parts of Hoi An beyond the touristy old town. We smash down a breakfast

Hue to Hoi An

Ok, let's try that again. We wake up and the rain has stopped and we're feeling a bit better. We head down for breakfast in the hotel. There's heaps of options, both local and western breakfast staples. There's even a chef cooking

Hue - Day 1

Well, we make it in one piece at around 11am. We even managed to get some sleep, which was a bonus. The mattresses were hard, the temperature was low, the train was rocky, but not super fast, so that was manageable. There was a moment where I thought I'

Ninh Binh - Day 3

Ninh Binh - Day 3

We leave for Hue later tonight on the 11pm overnight train, so we're in no hurry this morning. We start with brekky on the deck again and try to put a plan together. Ninh Binh isn't a huge place so we've checked off most

Ninh Binh - Day 2

Ninh Binh - Day 2

6:30am wake-up call for The Boxing Day Test! Managed to get the VPN going in time to see the first ball. We lay in bed and watch the first hour before wandering over for some breakfast overlooking the lake and the karsts. Not a bad way to start the

Ninh Binh - Day 1

Ninh Binh - Day 1

We've got an early start today as we're off to our next destination, Ninh Binh, which is a couple hours south of Hanoi. We've got a tour booked for today and the bus is scheduled to pick us up at 7:30. The hotel

Hanoi - Day 3

We've got a Hanoi on foot tour booked for 9am, which gives us plenty of time to have another leisurely breakfast and look out over Hanoi. The communication on all of the stuff we have booked has been brilliant via WhatsApp. For the tour today, which only cost

Hanoi - Day 2

We're up early and the smell of smoke permeated the room unfortunately. Hopefully that clears by the time we hit the streets. But first, let's see what the hotel's buffet breakfast has to offer. We head up to the top floor and are greeted

Hanoi - Day 1

An un-eventful 9 and half hour flight and we arrive in Hanoi. On descent we can see that it's very hazy. Not sure if it's smog, or smoke, or mist. We weren't sitting next to each other on the flight (budget flying with Viet

London - Day 5

We wake around 8am for our last full day in London and of the trip. We get ready and take the tube to Euston for breakfast at Pinner Cafe, a proper greasy-spoon. We each order a form of English brekky and as is customary it comes with a loaf of

London - Day 4

Back to London today, via the Eurorail. Easy enough to get to Gare du Nord and the immigration process was smooth enough. Although up to this point, travelling through the European countries there has been no immigration or customs to deal with at all, we've simply waltzed off

Paris - Day 4

It's our last full day in Paris and we wake with the sounds of punk rock melodies in our head (could also be the pounding as a result of one too many late night Heinekens). Either way, we're taking it a bit slower this morning with

Paris - Day 3

Massive day lined up today. Monet in the morning, punk rock in the evening 🤘 First, the usual hotel breakfast before heading towards Point Nuef for a river cruise. We get the metro and pop our heads up at a flower market. The sun is shining but it's not

Paris - Day 2

We sleep in until 9am and then head downstairs for the hotel breakfast. There are baguettes and pastries aplenty, very French. Our first full day in a new city is usually a big one and this one will be no exception. We figure out how to get a metro ticket

Paris - Day 1

Despite only a 1 hour 50 minute flight from Prague to Paris it ends up being a long travel day. Breakfast at the hotel then out the door. A 12pm flight but we don't end up at our Paris hotel in the 17th arrondissement until about 4pm. We

Prague - Day 3

We wake and have breakfast in the hotel again before heading out for a walking tour we've got booked for today. We have time so we take a longer route, seeing a bit more of the area we're staying in. It definitely feels less touristy and

Prague - Day 2

A hotel breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs and a sausage this time. That sets us up well for a big morning walk up the hill to see the sights. The park starts across the street from us and its a steep climb to the top, taking about 25 minutes. There

Prague - Day 1

We're off to Prague today on the bus. The bus isn't until 10ish and Courts is awake at 6:30 so decides to go out for a run. It's nice and quiet this time of morning, not many people around. She runs around the

Dresden

A 2 hour train from Berlin. Not too difficult, although again its a bit of free-for-all in terms of getting the right seat. We have seat numbers on our tickets, but it seems hit and miss about how religiously people are following that. Stepping off the train in Dresden and

Berlin - Day 4

We've got a big last full day planned so we're aiming to be at the DDR Museum when it opens at 9am. Naturally, we sleep in til 8:45am. Ah well. We have a quick brekky in the room and hit the road, the museum is

Berlin - Day 3

We go with the same home-made breaky today since it did the job well yesterday. We have a tour booked at 10am called "The Rise and Fall of Hitler" which aims to cover off on a lot of the history about the lead up to World War 2

Berlin - Day 2

In an effort to have a somewhat healthier start to the day, we've bought some yoghurt, fruit and muesli to have in the hotel. We have a civilised breakfast at the hotel room's desk and then head out to embrace the city that smells like sewerage,

Berlin - Day 1

Mostly a long train travel day (7 hours and 4 trains) for us today, starting at 5:15am from Aarhus central station, about a 15 minute walk. We have our packed breakfast ready to go this time. We have treated ourselves to first class seats, meaning a roll (a parting