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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Hanoi, Vietnam by TravelPod blogger Emilykamal titled “Typhoons, tunnels and scooters” Emilykamal’s travel blog entry: “We’d like to personally thank our pilot for announcing at the beginning of our 12 hour flight to Hong Kong that we were flying into a force 9 typhoon and that it might be a bit of a rough landing. And after little sleep and a few screaming children for an event free landing in what felt like a bit of wind and rain. However, it seems that typhoons are quiet serious and no one goes to work so the streets of Hong Kong were deserted and the lovely Dom and Octavia Orchard were at home to greet us in their 42nd floor apartment. A great place to view the city and experience the high winds as they picked up over night. Everyone else slept through it and it was only Emily who thought her time on this earth was up… As we’ve both done the Hong Kong tourist sights before we had a lovely time eating delicious Chinese food with not a duck pancake in sight, overindulging in vodka jellies until the early hours but still making it out to play tennis in the midday heat and watching the close of the Olympic Games and cringing with the rest of the UK while watching Boris outdo himself yet again. So on to Vietnam. After the endless brown scrubland of Africa it’s just so green. Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi are cities of scooters. There are thousands of them on the road at any given time, which makes crossing the road a challenge …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Shaowu, China by TravelPod blogger Eddakath titled “Do You Eat Cats N Dogs N Bats N Frogs Part 8″ Eddakath’s travel blog entry: “Hey Hey and a Big G’Day toya Here is the EIGHTH and for now LAST of the ‘Uncle Shane Do You Eat Cats & Dogs & Bats & Frogs’ food entries. Besides eating dogs, cats, rats and bats I manage to also sit down to a bowl or two of very normal food once in a while. Over the past week I’ve chosen my favourite little ‘hole in the wall eateries’ to sit at and take some happy snaps for my friends and family so they can see what I ‘normally’ eat during the week. And not a health inspector in sight! Over the past year and a bit that I’ve been living in Shaowu city I’ve managed to eat my way around most of the cities pokey little restaurants. These ones are very much at the top of my list for both their delicious food and the happy smiles from the owners and the people that eat there. Most also seem to have less ‘Bugs & Crawly Things’ racing around the place. TODAY For lunch today I headed down near the river to one of my least visited favourite Eateries. It has some of the most delicious food and always without chili BUT the problem I have going there is that I get uncomfortably stared at by almost everyone in the place for the entire time I’m there. Don’t get me wrong, I’m stared at all day every day and living and travelling in most of the places I do someone who has visited Beijing or Shanghai could …
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