Around the Mekong Delta and HCMC
Our plane arrived into Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) last night and the change from when I was last here in 2020 to today is almost disturbingly shocking. The center… Read more »
Author Archives: Varya
Hoi An and Danang in Rain
Hoi An I am sitting by myself at an outside counter of a restaurant overlooking the main evening gathering place of tourists in the city of Hot An in Central… Read more »
Country & Bay/Ba Ve and Lan Ha
Ba Ve Countryside We are leaving Hanoi today to experience some of the North Vietnamese countryside. As I look out at the sea of motorbikes and cars around our… Read more »
Entering Vietnam and Hanoi
I just arrived into Hanoi, one of my favorite cities, and I am about to begin a long 26 day visit to Vietnam. I will travel from North to South,… Read more »
Grundarfjordur and The Eclipse
We arrive in grey overcast to our last port before Reykjavik, pressaging a cloudy night ahead for our eclipse. We are resigned to poor visibiity. Our ship which was… Read more »
Isafjordur
I wake to a beautiful pink sunrise — this is really almost the land of the midnight sun as the sun rises around 4:30 and sets at about 10 pm. … Read more »
Akureyri Adventures
When we woke in our cabins as our ship entered the waters of Iceland near Djupivogur, the ship was rocking and we could hear the wind outside through our balcony… Read more »
The Faroe Islands
Of my recent trips abroad, our experiences on the Faroe Islands were probably the most surprising. In part because I knew nothing about the country in advance, except that it… Read more »
Invergordon and Scrabster
Invergordon We sail into Northern Scotland. I had arranged private tours for us for the next two days with Tartan Trailblazers, a woman owned tour company which proved an… Read more »
Edinburgh Friends
Edinburgh We are floating in a calm sea toward the Faroe Islands after a wonderful three days in Scotland, from Edinburgh, to Invergordon, to Scrabster in the far North. My… Read more »