• Travel
  • My kind of place; Dalat, Vietnam

    Dalat, vietnam, Tuyen Lam Lake

    Beautiful buildings and friendly people in the mountains We arrived in Dalat too late for the group dinner at Dalat Family, the hostel we had booked for our stay. I was pretty annoyed and what made matters worse is that they had double booked us so we were forced to stay at a guesthouse on the […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 04/04/2014

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. Coffee, dumplings and doughnuts. Helen’s reward after a hellish 16 hour night bus journey. Read her latest adventures of backpacking around Asia, currently in Vietnam […]

  • Travel
  • Easy Rider: Nha Trang to Da Lat, Vietnam

    If you have the money then do it. Aimee, Lisa, Nicola, Kevin and I were met outside Mojzo Inn by six Vietnamese men on motorbikes. They were Easy Riders, a group of older men, often veterans of the Vietnamese/American war, who tour Vietnam by motorbike. The famous Easy Rider Tours are a great way to see […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 28/03/2014

    Ben & Jerry's, Greek yogurt, Malteaster, Durleighmarsh Tea Barn, lemon polenta, cake, bakewell tart, Capers, Southsea, rice balls, Vietnam, backpacking, sweet treats. lovelifelovecake

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from top left: 1. Helen enjoyed these ‘strange jelly-like balls’ as she describes them in yesterdays blog post and found out later that they were actually glutinous rice […]