WANDERLUST

In January 2020 two things happened: 1. I packed up and left the UK for what I hoped would be 4 months. 2. An outbreak of Coronavirus...

Well what a city! I really loved Ho Chi Minh, perhaps it was the baking sun getting my spirits high or maybe it was because this was our...

Wow, I'd heard a lot about Hoi An being a real gem in Vietnam but I really hadn't realised quite how much I'd love it. We arrived at the...

We’d had the journey from hell. In fact, the journey was worse than any hell I could envisage. 24 hours in what was effectively a human...

SOME BACKGROUND Vietnam is a beautiful country with a lot of rural and unspoilt areas. However, it is also a very cultural place to...

HOW TO DO IT Vietnam is renowned for Halong Bay and quite rightly too. It’s a stunning area that will make you feel like you’re in...

During our travels through Thailand and Laos, talk of the Hi Giang Loop kept cropping up. It was supposedly similar scenery to Sapa but...

THE SLOW BOAT We were right on the border of Laos by the Mekong river when we left Thailand. This was because we’d booked onto the two...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TRANSPORT Having come from Thailand, we were used to smooth roads and safe drivers. Well, what a shock we were in...

CHAING MAI North Thailand, known for being more cultural and way less of a party than the islands ... how did we end up getting worse up...

So we’d done Bangkok and the West Islands but now we were going to Surat ThanI (the port to take you to all the East Islands). Let stage...

BANGKOK Having travelled for three weeks in New Zealand, Lauren, Grace and I landed down in South East Asia. We stayed at Bodega hostel...

Currency There’s a few things that are good to know if you’re going to Thailand. The first is that the currency is Thai Baht (£1 is just...