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,…
‘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…
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…
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.…
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…