Hidden amidst the hectic, narrow streets of the Hanoi Old Quarter lies a funky little area, where motorbikes are no longer the biggest danger to locals stepping outside of their front door. They’re replaced by high speed trains, hurling through the residential street, only mere feet away from peoples everyday lives – their dishes and laundry drying by […]
2017
MARCH 2017
Waaah. March: I’m afraid blogging just didn’t happen. Between moving into the new house, learning to ride our motorbikes, my mum and gran visiting for two weeks and then doing my headteacher training, there just wasn’t any time to sit down and write up some of our back logged adventures! So here’s our March monthly […]
FEBRUARY 2017
I keep telling myself that February is a short month and that’s why it feels like this year is flying away. But seriously, are we already in March? February was a super busy month for us, not on the travelling front but we have had lots going on at home in Ho Chi Minh City […]
JANUARY 2017
Wow, first month of the year gone already?! 2017 – slow down! Welcome to our first monthly round up: January I’m hoping to continue doing these for the whole of 2017 and for once I’m actually on time posting! We’ve been a bit slow off the blocks this month and unfortunately lots of internet issues in […]
TẾT | Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Vietnam
Chúc mừng năm mới! (Happy New Year in Vietnamese) Tết is the Vietnamese name for the Lunar New Year, and it is the biggest holiday of the year in Vietnam, with most families celebrating over multiple days and even up to a week or more! This year (2017) it falls on the 28th of January, celebrating the […]
2016 | Our Year of Travel Review
Our first big year of travel. And its mainly thanks to saying goodbye to the UK and our retail jobs and heading to Vietnam to pursue new careers as teachers. Without a doubt the best decision of 2016. We started this blogging space in August and have since been a bit slow with sharing our […]
