Soo yet again I’ve left this blog quite a long time over the summer! Quite a lot has happened, a lot that I am thankful for. It’s a miserable rainy day so I’m enjoying taking the time to feel grateful today. We got the house! It took a few weeks but we’ve officially found a […]
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Bristol Happy List: Summer Solstice Edition
“Welcome back” said Vinnett last night in our summer solstice evening yoga class. We did 108 sun salutations and waved the longest day goodbye in a whirl of sweat, fire-breath and vinyasa. As we meditated towards the end I felt so grateful to be back in Bristol. We moved back almost two weeks ago and […]
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Orangutans in Sumatra
One of my ultimate trip highlights was definitely seeing orangutans in Sumatra. Like many tourists who arrive at Medan airport, we skipped the city and went straight to the jungle in Bukit Lawang. We had booked a two-day jungle trek through our hotel, Ecolodge Bukit Lawang. The hotel itself was amazing enough – nestled between the […]
Monsters and Rice fields: two weeks in beautiful Bali
I was super excited about this leg of the trip as I was going to meet up with Bex, an old friend I hadn’t seen in toooo long! She’s been living in Melbourne for the last three years and apart from one evening two Christmases ago we haven’t seen each other, so I was so excited […]
Trees and temples: two weeks in Cambodia
We started off in Phnom Penh, which for one reason or another, didn’t go so great – I got ill several times, and we found the city in general to be pretty hard to walk around. Luckily we didn’t get robbed (which happens there frequently apparently, so I made sure we were holding onto […]
Koh Rong: An island with two sides
Having spent a lot of our trip so far in different cities in Asia, I was very excited to get in some decent beach-time in Cambodia before heading North to Angkor Wat, and I read that Koh Rong was the perfect place to do so. Somewhat of a backpackers paradise, Koh Rong is actually a […]
Hoi An
We spent one week in Hoi An and it was possibly our favourite place so far! We stayed on Cam Nam island at Village Love Homestay, which was the best room we’ve had so far and included breakfast and free bike rental (which was needed as we were a couple of kilometres out of the […]
Socks and Crocs: Hanoi and Ha Long Bay
Hanoi, what a city! The hectic traffic was a bit much for me and D – we were a bit shellshocked when we arrived and had to cross a few junctions with our cases in tow! However by the end of our week in Hanoi it had grown on us quite a lot, despite the […]
Luang Prabang
We’ve just had two weeks in Luang Prabang – how the time has flown by! It’s so easy to lose days here; the pace of life is pretty slow. Paired with a lingering stomach bug and it doesn’t feel like we’ve done that much, but nonetheless I’ve really enjoyed it. I think we could have […]
February 2017
Things that make me happy today: Eating Grasshoppers Today’s snack #grasshoppers #crunchy A photo posted by Holly Vandizzle (@hollyvandizzle) on Feb 7, 2017 at 10:55pm PST Bamboo bridges Seeing monks everywhere Lao Lao Garden Ice Coffee Making plans Emails from Mum Having time to be creative Beerlao