Cat Ba Town is tiny. The main tourist area with restaurants and hotels is three streets, none a mile in length. The longest runs along the waterfront lined by narrow tall, greying hotels. The two other streets that go inland,…
Day 5-6 Vietnam – Stuck in a cheesy shore town waiting for the cyclone to pass
‘No english’ our driver says. That’s tough. We hired a not-very-cheap private car today to do a custom tour of a few more caves, lunch etc… We had assumed someone could at least handle some basic stuff. The car, arranged…
Day 3-4 Vietnam: My favorite day hike of all time – 8 miles underground in Phong Nha
Vietnam required an online visa process that was lengthy and a little bit confusing. But it worked flawlessly at passport control. We found a line just as it opened up, handed them our paper visa and waltzed on through. And…
Day 1-2 Vietnam – Singapore Travel and Itinerary
There are a handful of countries I would go back to rather than visit somewhere new: Jordan, Peru, Iceland and Indonesia are on that list. Vietnam is another. I took a trip there in 2013 and loved it so much.…
Day 9 Vilnius, Lithuania – the motherland and 300 days of travel!
My hotel room smells like my Lithuanian grandma. I’m not kidding, it’s very distinctive. Maybe I’m having some kind of auto-suggestion event because I’m in the place that side of the family came from – Lithuania. Not Vilnius specifically, the…