Great Estate Festival
Friday I’ll try to do the commentary on the pictures to save time and effort. Bit of a delay to creating this as I was doing a lot of work on this website Ffunga. Give it a look as I am quite pleased with it, although I did not design it! Quick Bacon Buttie Acrobatics […]
A Few Days in Cornwall
We booked to go to the Great Estate Festival at the end of May and we went a few days earlier to see Sue’s parents as her Mum had not been well. We tried to go out in the day to give people a rest. It is a bit of a way down to Cornwall, […]
Arundel Weekend
We were looking at the weather about a week ahead and were quite excited to see that the weather was looking great for this weekend. So we discussed where to go and Sue suggested Arundel (I was pushing for Tom’s field in Dorset). She persuaded me and so I did. a chat GPT search for […]
Falmouth – Easter
What a great week. A fabulous Korean meal from Ben and Graduation ceremony from Sam hosted by Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Egypt 1989
Egypt 1989 We decided to blog this very old holiday as I was a bit bored and wating for the big Vietnam trip. It was quite a trip and our first one with Explore, who we have used one and off ever since. We also got engaged on this trip, my second proposal as the […]
The Return
So we got up and had our four-course breakfast in preparation for the long journey back to the UK. We packed up our room slowly and checked out as late as possible, as we would have a three-hour wait in the lobby for our transfer to Ho Chi Minh City airport. Interestingly, the three-letter airport […]
And…. relax
See below for explanation We got up to wave Jayne off at 8:30 (after breakfast) and then went for a coffee with Ramie, Jo, Anne and Donna. My last egg coffee (Dave). We then headed back to the hotel and said our farewells to Anne and Donna. Coffee!!! My last egg coffee It was 3 […]
The colours of Vietnam
Sue spotted someone doing travel collages online and so set herself the challenge of creating four collages of the primary colours of the trip. Various decorations for Tet (celebration of the lunar New Year) Vintage car that once transported the queen of Denmark, Viditours office, Ho Chi Minh City 2026 is the year of the […]
Day 11: The last tour day
This morning we had even more choice at breakfast with a bahn mi station and pancakes with maple syrup!! Dave couldn’t find any condensed milk for his coffee though! 😀 Our first activity of the day was learning about coffee making at the International Barista School, an institution providing local students with an international accreditation […]
Day 10: Calm then back to chaos
After a delicious breakfast, we headed off down the river at 8:30 for a local boat tour. Our first stop off was at a charcoal factory where charcoal is produced from the hard shell of the coconut. This has a range of uses – some for cooking, some medicinal for stomach complaints. A lot is […]