by Jade House | Sep 20, 2017 | Vietnam Motorbike Trips
After months and months of dreaming and planning and decisions and changes, we finally set off on our road trip on a cloudy Monday in August. Bad weather had us facing the wheels South, not North and we spent 12 days travelling by bike from Hanoi to Hoi An. It was...
by Jade House | Aug 25, 2017 | Vietnam, Vietnam Motorbike Trips
We recently wrote a guide to easy overnight trips from the city and now we’re here to follow up with the best weekend trips from Hanoi. Hanoi is well placed for some incredible road trips in all directions, so there is no excuse to get stuck in the city. In fact,...
by Jade House | Aug 17, 2017 | Favourites, Vietnam Motorbike Trips
Our first foray into the many National Parks along the Ho Chi Minh Highway had not been successful. My fruitless google searches of Ben En National Park and Ben En homestay options should have been an indicator that something was amiss. We rode all the way into the...
by Jade House | Aug 9, 2017 | Vietnam Motorbike Trips
Getting out of the city is the most important piece of advice I give to new expats living in Hanoi. Hanoi is endlessly fascinating, full of incredible food and bursting with fun ways to spend your time creatively. Hanoi is also heavily polluted, constantly noisy and...
by Jade House | Mar 15, 2017 | Popular, Vietnam, Vietnam Motorbike Trips
Living in Vietnam, you won’t get very far without renting, buying or borrowing a bike. Whether you go for a giant automatic that resembles a spaceship, a classic traveller Win or Wave or something in between, you quickly become accustomed to zipping down tiny alleys...
by Jade House | Dec 28, 2016 | Adventures, Favourites, Vietnam, Vietnam Motorbike Trips
These year reviews are some of my favourite blogs to write. Not only do I love looking back over the last 12 months, but it is so interesting to see how we thought the journey of 2016 would play out and then how it really did. We presumed we’d come to Vietnam, work,...