It’s just under 400 km (250 miles) from Sofia, Bulgaria to Bucharest, Romania. According to Google Maps you can walk there in 74 hours, but with crutches and all our luggage, I think not. I don’t know why Google chose walking as the default when I looked up the distance, …
We spent several holidays here in Sofia, starting with our 20th Anniversary! That’s right, as of December 12, Howard and I have been together for 20 years. We celebrated with a delicious dinner at Moma, an authentic Bulgarian restaurant. Sofia has some fantastic places to eat. It was hard to decide where …
The trip back to Europe from Vietnam was long and uncomfortable. The worst travel day we’ve had since we started this adventure last year. It started out Wednesday morning. We used the same van company that got us to Ha Long to take us to the airport in Hanoi, about …
We are coming up on four months here in Vietnam. There are two more months left on our visa and we were planning to go south to Da Nang, then over to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to fly out. We’ve changed our plans though. We weren’t finding any Airbnbs …
We were on a boat! A ship really, a really nice cruise ship. Touring Ha Long Bay was top on our list while in Vietnam and it was well worth it. I did a lot of research on which cruise we wanted to take, and there are a lot to …
From the busy market streets of Old Hanoi to the 23rd floor of a brand new luxury high rise in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, we literally have moved up! [Before I get into this post, I just want to mention the nifty little map feature we made for this blog. …
Monsoon season ended with a cold front that rolled through and left us with cooler, sunny weather. Well, the high is still 30 C (86 F) everyday, but it’s not quite as humid as it was and the pollution layer blocks a lot of the suns rays, but this is …
The best way to describe what it’s like in Hanoi is to compare it to a science fiction world. It’s like the street level ghetto, the bottom level of the space station, where you would go to find the black market vendor in a video game. It’s where the real …
Our journey to Vietnam was long, but not too bad. We left Gdansk on Monday and took the train down to Warsaw where we spent 2 nights in the Old Town, a pedestrian area inside the city walls. It was a great location but it took dragging all our luggage …
