#Travel Budgets
It’s been just over five weeks since returning from travelling and I’ve finally sat down and gone through three months of credit and debit statements to work out our actual travel spend. Eek, now despite the large...
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It’s been just over five weeks since returning from travelling and I’ve finally sat down and gone through three months of credit and debit statements to work out our actual travel spend. Eek, now despite the large...
On Thursday we would be have been “home” for six weeks. Six weeks, didn’t take long to fall back into normality but I really am still missing and craving travelling. Way back before we started travelling...
(4th – 8th April) So, our original plan was to go and see the Yellow Mountain in Haungshan, China. However, China isn’t the easiest country to travel through with language barriers. So we decided to hop...
(30th March – 3rd April) So, I think we’ve established that although I love travelling, I really do like a comfortable hard bed over sleeper buses and trains. Our sleeper train to Suzhou was a bit...
(28th -29th March) Our train left Beijing at 17.55 and took around 14 hours to get to Xi’an.Six of us shared a cabin, I took the bottom bunk, in case I slept walked or fell off....
(27th March) I have wanted to see the Great Wall of China since a little girl, and with this excitement I was quite worried at what I would get on this trip. There was talk of...
(24th – 26th March) Our flight left Hanoi at 10am and we arrived in Beijing at 2.30pm (local time, one hour ahead of Vietnam, +8 UK). We were going to grab a taxi, but a Chinese...
(21st – 23rd March) (20th)We caught the local bus at 4.20pm from Halong, which arrived at Hanoi Bus station at 8.50pm. We took a really expensive taxi to our hotel, grabbed some dinner and took an...
(19th – 20th March) We caught the local bus to Halong which in itself was an experience, a bus meant for 22 people and of course, there were more than 22. I was sat on a...
(18th March) Before you say it.. Tam Coc! Tam Cock… Haha! But it actually means ‘three caves’. We’d originally booked the sleeper bus to Hanoi (for Hanoi, Halong and Sapa) but this would have meant living...