Posts Tagged ‘ Vietnam ’

Travel and food writer, Amy Everett, shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Readers

Patricia completes her river journey in Vietnam by cruising along the Red River

Patricia continues her river journey in Vietnam by travelling from Halong Bay to the Red River in the north by way of five smaller rivers.

Patricia begins her three part tour of cruising Vietnam on a riverboat by crusing in one of the country’s top destinations – Halong Bay

Phu Quoc (pronounced “foo kwok”), an island off the southwest coast of Vietnam, is one of South East Asia’s best kept secrets.
Here are eight great reasons to book your flight to this island paradise – before everyone else does

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot – and what’s not – in the travel world, right now…

Pals Josh Hall and Matt Earle recently rollerbladed the length of New Zealand, filming their adventure for a new travel TV series. Here the skating pair share their travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers

Adrian ends the week happy that a Rubbish Party candidate was elected in Scotland, more hold baggage is not getting lost on planes and that private detectives are deterring touts from advising holidaymakers to make bogus insurance claims.

Next week, Alaska celebrates 150 years as being part of the US. India and Vietnam celebrate more British visitors and Glaswegians celebrate a new way to pay for their travel tickets!

Start planning that trip of a lifetime…

Brian Luckhurst, founder of Home Exchange 50plus, talks travel

What do elephants, Beatrix Potter, Durham Cathedral and Elizabethan theatre in France have in common? They are all in Adrian’s column this week

Gavin Stone, a former ‘intelligence operative’, has written a book revealing the tips and tricks of travelling “next to nothing”. Result! Here the Wolverhampton-born author, who has stayed in super yachts and castles, shares some of his experiences with Just About Travel readers

Adrian takes a first look at some of the smaller travel stories of 2016.

Natasha says that Vietnam offers great value to British people looking for somewhere exotic, comparatively safe and out of the ordinary.

In summary, then, in alphabetical order, here are our top tips for 2016: Anguilla, Cardigan Bay, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Germany, Hull, Peru, South Korea, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Our essential annual hot-list of where in the world to go for wallet-friendly wandering, whether you’re hunting for a bargain or in search of old-school cheapness. Splurgers, look elsewhere.

Adrian welcomes cultural displays from Ukraine and Vietnam but only into London, ponders whether to become an engine drive and wonders how Thailand and Tunisia will fare over the winter season.

It’s Armed Forces Day today and Glastonbury and the Festival of Speed are on as well. Adrian avoids all of these to discuss the smaller stories of the week!

Sean Fulton – founder of the blog Around the world in 196 tables – suggests how you can eat your way around the world, without leaving the M25

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world

It’s wet, windy and dark at four o clock so it must be time to head abroad and bask in some winter sun. Just About Travel has the low-down on 10 destinations where sun, sand and sea come as standard

Everybody gets in the act these days of forecasting where we might holiday, where the “hot-spots” will be, what’s up-and-coming and where will be the most popular.

The photojournalist and co-founder of The Flash Pack on Brixton, Brazil and Bucket Lists

For 34 years Kuoni has been undertaking it’s annual Travel Trends Report which is a reasonable pointer to those destinations that appeal to those able to trave long-haul.

That’s the view from the Post Office’s latest Travel Money Holiday Money Report.

For his latest cookbook Mighty Spice Express, celebrity chef and all round spice expert, John Gregory-Smith, went in search of the best express dishes from around the world. Here John shares his recipes for Cochin Crab Cakes and Vietnamese Bun Cha, with CD-Traveller readers

This weekend on the south bank in London there is a festival. No surprise really except that this time is a rare opportunity to see Vietnamese water puppetry.