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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Hanoi day 2
The weather was a bit brighter today as were we. We managed to complete a short workout in the gym early this morning and rewarded ourselves with a big breakfast. I forgot to mention our visit to Train Street yesterday. You may well have seen videos of this – a narrow train track that is…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Hanoi day 1
I felt as flat as a pancake today. This is only to be expected, a usual reaction of mine when saying goodbye to loved ones and moving on. I always feel like just going home. This time also not helped by a sad anniversary and the bloody awful weather. The weather! Foggy, wet and cold.…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Adelaide Ooma’s 100th birthday
Family gatherings are intimate things, and when the much loved, but frail matriarch of that family reaches one hundred years old it’s emotionally charged. It’s far too intimate to be discussed in this blog but I do feel a novel coming on which will be written in my dotage. Maybe. What I can say is…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Ozling time Days 4-8
Ian and Kylie have generously used some of their precious leave to spend time with us. Kylie in particular has assumed the role of Entertainments Executive. When she isn’t guiding us around various local hotspots, she’s pointing us in the right direction of various walks to do and places to see, giving us full instructions…
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Australia and Vietnam Revisited 2025 – Ozling time Days 1-3
We have arrived in Australia on the weekend before Australia Day, also the last hurrah of the kid’s summer holidays. It’s going to be busy. On our last visit to Oz in 2016, Ian and Kylie lived in Noosa. The house they rented got sold for redevelopment and a care home for the elderly has…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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