Monthly Archives : July 2011

The Great Wall of China is all that! Travelling Homebody says it should be on everyone's bucket list.

My itinerary for China…


I’m doing a Travel Indochina (Insider Journeys) tour of China. I travelled with them for my first ever trip overseas to Vietnam, and I couldn’t be happier with how that adventure went. I was such a nervous Nelly! So without further ado, here is my itinerary for China…  my second overseas trip ever… and the obligatory map. I’m so excited! Your turn!…

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First overseas trip ever: what I learned


I loved, loved, loved my first trip to Vietnam. It was hard (in places!) and tiring, but amazing at the same time. Would I do it again? Absolutely! Would I do it differently? Some things, possibly, but that’s only because hindsight is 20/20. So here goes. This is what I learned. 1. What didn’t work so well: Don’t take two separate…

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China, in T minus 4 weeks


I am just about to go on my second adventure of a lifetime: China. I had no real interest in going to China – on a slow boat or otherwise – until I went to Vietnam last year. While I was there, the further north we went, the more Chinese it got, and the more fascinated I became with Chinese…

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