The departure from our Malaysian beach hotel was an example of a good travel day: plenty of time for a poolside breakfast, a smooth check-out, and a relaxed taxi ride to the airport for a late morning flight. Destination: Indonesia. But even good travel days can have snags along the way. To prove that point, our arrival […]
Our flight with Andrea W. from Siem Reap, Cambodia to Bangkok, Thailand was uneventful – for international flights, that’s a really good thing. Our Airbnb host had arranged for an airport transfer to their condo; the apartment had all the necessary conveniences – nothing too fancy, but comfortable. We quickly jumped into […]
Our taxi picked us up at our Cha-am, Thailand condo in late morning for a three-hour drive to Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. There, we would board our flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Having private drivers to transfer us from one city to the next was becoming our standard in Southeast […]
Chiang Mai We left Phu Quoc, Vietnam feeling a little nervous. We were flying to Ho Chi Minh airport and had only given ourselves a 90-minute window to connect to our Chiang Mai, Thailand flight. This meant collecting our luggage, finding international departures, checking in, going through passport check and security, […]
Ha Long Bay: January 2-4 Seeing the jutting limestone islands of Ha Long Bay had been a top bucket list item for almost 25 years – a desire perhaps attributed to the 1992 film, Indochine. Whether sparked by the Catherine Deneuve movie or by other means, the visual majesty did not […]
Hanoi arrivals – legit or scam? We arrived at the Hong Kong airport at 8:05AM after a long flight across eastern Europe and Asia. Our flight departing for Hanoi was not scheduled until 1:25PM, so we had lots of time to sit around and wait. Two hours to departure, we […]
Munich, Germany – December 19-21, 2017 What a shock to leave the sunny, 18-degree Celsius Lisbon and to arrive at the snowy, sub-zero Munich airport. After a 20-minute walk from the main railway station to our hotel – it looked so much closer on the map – we unpacked our bags and headed to Augustiner-Bräu brewery […]
So we said goodbye to Africa. We arrived at the Marrakesh airport with plenty of time to check-in and board our flight to Lisbon. The check-in queue wasn’t very long but was moving so very slowly. Then, as we approached the counter ourselves, we found out why: it seemed that many purchased […]
After another good breakfast prepared by Hayat, we said goodbye to brother and sister, and drove away in our petit taxi to the Fez train station. Onboard the train, with snacks and Kindles in hand, we settled in for the eight hour train ride to Marrakesh. The route, although quite long, was scenic; the […]
The trip from Tunis to Fez began as planned; although, in hindsight, we should have asked for a late check-out from our Airbnb apartment. At 11AM, after breakfast, we made a short side trip to the Poste Tunisienne office to return Nena’s (see earlier post) Peloponnese map – with a bonus apologetic postcard […]