A daring culinary journey
After arriving in Ho Chi Minh city, we started to explore the highlights and new surroundings straight away. We decided to choose self-catering accommodation as we missed our own cooking and food shopping. We applied our usual formula and only booked 3 nights at the apartment close to the Saigon Zoo. The asking price went … Continue reading Ho Chi Minh City Highlights
I must admit, I was considering letting my blog die a quiet death. We didn’t think people were reading it nor really all that interested in following our travels in Vietnam. We received a very positive WhatsApp message of support today. I feel that I have to add more to the blog. So here goes… … Continue reading Vietnam: More exploration
A lot has happened since I last posted on the blog. While sitting in the train from Hanoi to Hue in Vietnam, I finally had the time to write about everything we’ve done in the last few months. First of all Thailand: On the 12th of February, we took a night flight with Air Asia … Continue reading Thailand, Laos and a bit of Vietnam
We have been in Ubud, Bali for 3 weeks and we absolutely love this little town. After a week in the first accommodation we chose, we booked other accommodations in various areas in and around Ubud to discover different places and more important the restaurants and wonderful local cuisine. From a self-catering apartment to a … Continue reading A taste of Bali
As promised, we said we would tell you more about our last days in/around London, but we were both down with nasty flu/colds, so a bit of a delay in the blog and a shorter version to prevent the backlog becoming even bigger. Our humble apologies 😉 The last night in London we were treated … Continue reading Sun, sun, sun, here we come!
After a couple of days staying at Bretts sister’s house, it was time to explore the city. The best and cheapest way to do this is with a London bus via the ‘Citymapper’ app. Not only does it give you the best way to travel from A to B, but it’s also really accurate and … Continue reading Exploring London
After celebrating Sinterklaas with the family in the Netherlands, we left to visit the UK. Although we promised we would be back soon, my family had a hard time saying goodbye. On Tuesday the 4th of December we took a train to Leiden where our hotel was booked for the night. This hotel was situated … Continue reading London here we come!
What an exciting 3 weeks for us and our little nieces and nephews! Sinterklaas officially arrived in the Netherlands on the 17th of November 2018 and will be here for 3 weeks until his birthday on the 5th of December 2018. For those who don’t know Sinterklaas: please click here for more background information. It … Continue reading Sinterklaas arrives in Glanerbrug!
Now that the admin side of things has settled down, we finally have some time for ourselves again. We decided to go out on a Friday date night. We love Asian tapas and found a restaurant in Enschede that served just that: Asaka. What a great experience it was! Friendly staff were waiting for us … Continue reading Date night
On the 25th of October we found out that the MSC ALTAMIRA cargo ship had docked in Rotterdam however, we only received the official email notification from the logistics company on the 31st of October. Clearing the goods was a time-consuming affair. Several emails and phone calls had to be made to clear our goods … Continue reading Our ship came in!
