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12 August 2018
As expected, I woke early in Saigon and dozed till around 0530. I took breakfast on the hotel’s rooftop in their main building; I was housed in their annex. Surprisingly, they had no pho for breakfast so I settled for an omelette accompanied by a very good personal baguette. It was very light inside and […]
11 August 2018
We landed at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhat airport about 30 minutes early around 1915. With no luggage, I was out quickly. First priority was to get money from the ATM. Both the ones I tried imposed a local fee. I chose the one with the cheaper fee and withdrew what I expect to spend for […]
27 July 2018
La Boca walking tour We were consciously trying to adjust our body clocks to approach New Zealand time. There was a 9h difference (ignoring the date change) and by allowing ourselves to sleep till 0900, I figured we were already adjusting ourselves by 3h. We took the last of the hotel’s yummy breakfast before checking […]
26 July 2018
After a sleep-in, I made a light breakfast of oats and dried fruit to tide us till lunch after check-out at 1100. Walking around Puerto Iguazu, we settled on a buffet-per-kilo place. This one had a higher price compared to our now “usual” joined to the bus station but the quality of the offerings were […]
25 July 2018
We caught the bus to the Argentine side of the falls from our nearby bus station at 0820 and arrived at the park headquarters around 0900. It wasn’t much shorter than the journey to the Brazilian park. The bus ride cost more than the one to the Brazilian side, probably due to lack of competition. […]
24 July 2018
We wanted to explore the Brazil side of the Iguaçu (Iguazu) falls today and the first bus was 0810. I set the alarm for 0650 so we could make the second bus at 0830 in a relaxed manner. It had been raining and when we checked while eating our oats and dried fruit, it felt […]
23 July 2018
We checked out at 1000 after breakfast and taxied to Aeroparque for our flight to Puerto Iguazu. Arriving at Aeroparque we found the snaking queue for Andes airline to be horrendously long. Fortunately it was fast-moving and we got to nearly the front in 30 minutes to find the baggage conveyor had jammed. After a […]
22 July 2018
We woke without an alarm around 0830. We didn’t exactly have tonnes of time as our proposed 1000 departure would get us back in the early evening, if we took a detour through Mar del Plata. Breakfast at the hotel consisted of ham, cheese bread and little else. After last night’s dinner of ham and […]
21 July 2018
Driving to Balcarce With the two hour time change, we just didn’t want to get out of bed. But we had to. After breakfast, we checked out around 0830 and took a taxi to Localiza Rental Cars in Barrio Norte. Uber no longer picks up at our hotel requiring us to go to a street […]
20 July 2018
Back to Buenos Aires after two years Despite taking off from Panama about an hour late, we were only five minutes late arriving into Buenos Aires at 0115. We had to wait a while to get a gate but once the doors opened, it was a breeze through passport, baggage and customs. Then things got […]