Maybe this is the reason we came to China in he first place, I think it was actually … Not only are we big kids at heart, but we first visited Disney in Orlando back in 1997 not that long after we were married. Since then alone, and with the kids, we had been lucky...
One of the big draw cards in Shanghai is The Bund when it’s lit up at night time. It ends up, like many other tourist attractions we’ve seen in China, an absolutely sardine can packed with everyone coming to see the sights. The Bund runs along the Huangpu River, along a spot which on the...
What a welcome to Beijing!!! NOT!!! The announcement on the aircraft, to my ears, was along the lines of if you don’t record fingerprints when you arrive at Daxing International Airport (Beijing) you are likely to be deported; that didn’t feel like the welcome I was expecting!! Anyway, we are pretty much compliant with authorities...
It seems to get worse … The taxi drives us from the airport, it’s quite a long drive as the airport is situated someway from the city of Beijing. All is going well and I’m tracking the progress of our taxi using Apple Maps which actually works quite well in Beijing. travelling from south to...
After the busy and chaotic few nights in Hanoi, we decided to chill out in Tam Coc. Tam Coc is a small town in the Ninh Binh Province close to the actual city of Ninh Binh but far quieter. We stopped at a lovely little hotel located down a side street off the main through...
There are 3 ways to get to Macau from Hong Kong We went for the TurboJet ferry which provided a very comfortable smooth ride. In fact I could have left the Kwells travel tablets behind but past life experiences have taught me that I don’t have the best sea legs on the smoothest of oceans!...