This may seem a simple one, but one that might catch you out. Whenever you travel always keep the details of your hotel in the local language. You can do this in a variety of ways, by paper, picture or an app. For our trip we are using Tripit Pro and keep all of our...
This is not really a shopping mall, but a large area taking in a few roads which are closed during the time this market/mall is open. It’s very much arranged for the tourists, and you don’t see locals at this market. What drew, Wendy, to this area was the Chocolate Factory which was clearly called...
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...
We’re on our countdown to our big trip, that’s what this site is really for, but for the next few nights we’re in Geelong for my graduation which is on Monday 15th September in the afternoon. I completed my course back in July and this was the next graduation I could attend. The last unit...
Wow, Angkor Wat is just the biggest and main temple in the Angkor temple park 20-minutes north of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Around this area there are around 50 temples, and they are all very significant in their own way, in their shear size, and the planning that went into building them. Not only that, many...
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!...