I had no intention of going anywhere after I had abandoned my Edinburgh trip (weather-related). As I am often wont to do, I started looking at flights for this week and I was looking to see where was cheapest. The place that was always showing up as the cheapest was Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. I […]
So… this was a really impromptu trip. I booked it on Tuesday when I was on my way back to Marrakech from Essaouira and I was going to leave on the Sunday but I couldn’t get to Heathrow because of rail works closing the line between Peterborough and London. I looked on the Saturday and […]
When I was looking for places to visit in 2025, I started looking at the Central Asia Stans. Like I mentioned in my post about Uzbekistan, I had never been to this part of the world, so 2025 would be my opportunity to see this part of the world. I looked to see which of […]
The day of leaving Peterborough and the day of getting to Tashkent are pretty much one and the same for me. I left Peterborough on the 16:30 train and as I was heading to London, I got a notification to say that the flight from Gatwick to Istanbul was delayed by about 2 hours. Why […]
I have wanted to go to Taiwan for a while but have never found a price on flights that I was willing to pay. I finally found them and decided I would book. I booked for the week over my birthday since I have been in Asia over that time for the last few years. […]
Today was the day we landed in Hanoi. I was so glad to be off that awful flight. The company we flew with – VietJet Air – has to be one of the worst I have flown with. They are a budget airline that flies internationally but doesn’t charge budget airline prices! The plane was […]
I was looking forward to this part of the trip as I had always wanted to go to Nepal. The pictures of the Himalayas make it look amazing. There is just something about mountains and snow-covered ones at that. I was so glad when I had it booked. I was excited for it. I guess […]
This post, and the two that follow, will talk about our trip to India, Nepal & Vietnam. This trip was a long time coming and it seemed to take a while to come around after we booked it. I think we had about 6 months between booking it and when we were due to leave. […]
I was so glad to get off the plane (especially with the 50-mile taxi from the runway to the gate). The descent was turbulent and absolutely not for me. This was also flight 7 of this entire trip. Flying is cool but very tiresome. We got off the plane and headed to the foreigner fingerprint […]
Today was the day we left Tokyo. We had to check out of the hotel by 10:00. I asked last night if we could have a late check-out and they said we had to be out by 10:00. Bugger. We were hoping for a couple of extra hours so we didn’t have to wait so […]
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