richard's travels

Malaysia: Everything in threes

I say everything in threes…but for the final leg of my South East Asian odyssey it is just me, myself,

Sitting in an anonymous international hotel room in the ultra-modern capital of Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur, seems an inappropriate choice of

It appears that every flight on this trip, save the intercontinental legs, are one hour long. And so it proved

An hour flight from Hue brought me to Hanoi…but more of that later. Up in the hills north west of

Just a one hour flight transports you from the bustling metropolis of Saigon to the much more peaceful coastal city

The South East Asia path that I am following commences in the thriving bustling city of Saigon. Now, before I

I had visited Slovenia in 2005, seeing the Spanish Riding School’s stud and training facility at Lipica and the Postojna

On my current travels, three countries will be revisited. Croatia, I’m pleased to say, is one of them. Last seen

Albania had intrigued me since childhood. A secretive secluded country run by a single man, Enver Hoxha for over forty

After a brief sojourn in Budapest, we hit the long and not so dusty road (ok…it was via train with