When life gives you lemon…
You know what they say. So, here is my lemonade recipe. Ingredients: – lemons, such as when the bus driver tells you that you are at the right terminal, when in fact you end up 6km from the correct place. – lime, such as no internet and no hotspot. (Internet changes everything.) – sugar, because…
The land where the scooter rules
So I’ve spoken a bit about the scooters and motorcycles that rule the world here. Basically, most people don’t drive a car, they drive a two-wheeler (and seldom a bike). Traffic rules varies between “the biggest go first”, like Vietnam, and “the fastest go first”, which is more Thailand. Red lights are often more a……
Cat Ba Island
Day 26-27-28-29 – Cat Ba Island, Vietnam I arrived on the island after around 21 hours spent in a train or waiting for a train or on a ferry or… you guess how rested I was. The ferry dropped us at the North of the island, which wasn’t very convenient for me, since I wanted…
I smell something fishy…
Day 25, Hue to Ha Noi, Vietnam When I write that I smell something fishy, I mean that literally, as the lady sitting beside was eating crabs when I had a look. Small crabs, out of a bag, sucking out the meat from the legs and everything. That’s what travelling on a soft seat in…
Unpleasant night visit
Due to a, shall we say, misunderstanding -I certainly wasn’t expecting the drunk hostel’s owner to slip into my bed at 3 in the morning-, and the proof of the lack of efficiency of the lock on my door, I switched hotel this morning. I’m going to pay twice as much for a door with…
Overlooking the onion market
In a previous article, I wrote how nice it was to have a bunk bed overlooking the onion market (I have a window in my bunk). What I didn’t know at the time is that the market never stops… actually, it seems even more active at night, with major deliveries, hawkers, music, and lights!