The Adventures of Cholly

So, since we've been home from our travels for just under three months, I've had a bit of time to reflect on everything and I thought I'd take some time to share some 'pearls of wisdom' that I've learnt to help those of you who are thinking of travelling too!   1. Go with the flow, even if it doesn't come first nature to you If there's one thing I love more than anything it's being planned and writing lists, so going travelling was always going to be a big thing for me because of course, not everything will go as planned and part of the enjoyment is not having a plan at all and just taking each day as it comes! In New Zealand and Australia we generally stuck to plans as we were tight on time and wanted to make sure we saw and did everything we wanted to do. However, when we got to Indonesia and South East Asia, for most of the time, we didn't really have a plan, at least not a day or two ahead, and I was actually really happy about it! ...

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I'm not going to lie, it's pretty painful sitting here as it rains outside writing about the amazing time we had on our travels, reminiscing about all the things we got up to but, it's also awesome to look back through all of our photos and videos... it's crazy thinking about everything we did and we're still so grateful and glad we did it. We only spent 15 days exploring Vietnam as that's the amount of time you're allowed to stay in the country without a visa. In hindsight, it wasn't really enough time and meant we missed out on Sapa, Na Trang and Da Lat. That being said, we still managed to navigate around the country, visiting lots of amazing places. Hanoi We flew into Hanoi from Singapore with Vietnam Airlines where we spent our first few days. If you think the traffic and motorbikes are crazy in Bali then you need to see what it's like in Vietnam... absolute chaos! I think we spent about 10 minutes waiting to...

Only have two days in Singapore? Here's how we spent our time there to give you some ideas on what you could do. We could of probably had just under two and a half days seeing as we arrived at our hotel around 3pm on the first day but I was so tired and the bed in the hotel (Nostalgia Hotel) was so ridiculously comfortable that I ended up napping for pretty much the rest of that day. Sometimes, we just need some R&R, am I right?! Our first full day in Singapore was our 'sightseeing day'. We got a taxi to Little India where we had a little look around and went in one of the temples. We then decided that the easiest way to get around the majority of the city in the time we had would be on one of the red open top sightseeing buses - we did most of the lines on offer and got to see lots of different sights including the famous Raffles Hotel. It rained whilst we was up on the top deck but we didn't mind too much as it cooled us down. Luckily for us, one of the ...

Whilst you could spend endless amounts of time in the paradise that is Bali, we only had 10 nights which we spent as follows; Seminyak - two days, three nights After living in hostels the whole time we were in New Zealand and Australia it felt pretty amazing to stay in a 4* hotel (The Visala Boutique Suites Hotel - perfect location for walking around Seminyak and to get to the Potato Head Beach Club). Bonus that the hotel cost around the same price as our hostels too! We felt like a King & Queen having room service and long lay-ins, not to mention getting our own private bathroom - no more walking down a corridor to take a shower/pee!   Our first day in Seminyak was nice and laid back, after a lay in and breakfast on the roof top of our hotel, we took a walk and stumbled across a spa where we each had a manicure, pedicure, facial and full body Balinese massage for around £17 each!! They were all amazing and given the price, make you want to have a treatment everyda...