Author: veggiegirlmarlow
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Sydney
Luckily, the sick lady on the plane appeared to survive the night as we didn’t have to turn tail back to Vietnam. Unluckily the premium economy seats this time were nowhere near as comfortable as our previous flight. Furthermore, the strength required to adjust the chair and footrest was that of an athlete and I…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – HCMC day 2
Sleep didn’t come easily last night so when the alarm went off at 7.30am I requested an emergency half hour addition to our allotted wake up time. Jet lag is one of those things it’s better not to succumb to, but this morning it was very tempting to just keep sleeping. A workout at the…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 -Ho Chi Minh City Day 1
After a very comfortable and easy flight, we did the usual “how come passport control all over the world is so uniformly slow?” routine at HCMC airport. It’s the ultimate in a display of passive power over people who can’t do a damn thing about it. We were so long, most of the luggage from…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025
How can we tear ourselves away from our babies for a whole month? Babies include not just our delightful grandsons but our whole family group – boys and girls – to whom we feel inextricably linked. Is it nature that makes us feel this way? Like chimps living in a big family circle. Whatever it…
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Tenerife 2024. Walk from Playa Jaquita to Los Gigantes
Playa Jaquita is near Alçala, an authentic Spanish town 20 minutes drive from Playa Paraiso. You can walk along the coast to Los Gigantes which is about a 10k hike there and back. The vibe around Playa Jaquita is an upmarket one. The promenade is flanked by a huge 5star resort and the women emerging…
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Tenerife 2024 – where are the bins?/Montana Pelada/ sunset on the strip
I have combined Thursday and Friday’s blogs as S and I have been very lazy and spent a lot of time by the pool. Great for us but swim, snooze, read,repeat doesn’t make for interesting reading. Talking about less interesting reading I am going to share with you a mystery. The mystery of the bins. …
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Tenerife 2024 – La Paraiso to Calleo Salvaje
We woke up to threatening skies and mist this morning. I can’t believe it, J and N disappear and take the sun with them! Unbelievable. Once it started thundering, lightning and raining, we decided to visit our beloved Superdino and also check out the other stores in the Rosa shopping centre. Not much of interest…
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Tenerife 2024- El Medano and Montana Roja
After a leisurely morning, it was off to pick up Mr and Mrs B and head off to El Medano. El Medano is famous for its windsurfing and kite surfing. It also has a big old lump nearby called the Montana Roja, formed “by successive explosions fruit of the violent vaporization of the sea waters”.…
Middle-aged flash packers 