Sunday/Monday 16-17 June 2014 Sydney to Frankfurt via Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Frankfurt 22C Cloudy We flew out of Sydney on a Vietnam Airlines Airbus A330. Loved the 1st leg to Ho Chi Minh City. On arrival we were met, and taken to a Hotel in the centre of town to relax. It was just enough time to take a short walk down town, have a shower and freshen up before being taken back to the airport for our onward flight to Frankfurt. The 2nd half was on a Boeing 7...

Wednesday 1 August 30C Reims to Paris. Today is the last day of our holiday and so this is our final entry. We caught the train from Reims to Paris this morning and left our bags at the hotel as check-in was not until 3pm. The sales have finished and all the autumn fashions have arrived in the shops, I was surprised how quickly they cleared out the sale items and had the new stock ready to sell overnight. I wandered around and looked but it was too hot to think...

Tuesday 31 July - Reims - 25C. Today we left the hotel around 10am to get some breakfast, but got distracted on the way to buy a pair of shoes in the last day of the summer sales in France. We eventually got to breakfast and started to plan the assault on the rest of the started the day buying shoes, then we had breakfast. Today is the last day of the "sales" in France and I am hoping to make a dent in the economy. We visited a shop that sold Fossier biscuits, ...

Monday 30 July - Paris to Reims - 21C This morning we caught the train to Reims from Paris' Gare de l'Est, It took just 45 minutes on a fast train travelling up to speeds of 240km/hr. It was a very comfortable trip and for the first time the train was not full. Once we arrived, we walked to the hotel in about 10 minutes and dropped off our bags, picked up our jumpers and went for a walk. First thing we noticed was that the shops were still shut. We found out t...

Sunday 29 July - Paris - 20C. We waved our friends goodbye after breakfast and decided to spend the morning in the shops until the day warmed up. Crossed the river, walked past the Louvre and up Avenue de la Opera only to discover that no stores are open on Sunday in Paris, we should have known. It was a lovely walk seeing the beautiful buildings of Paris once again. The sun came and went as we passed Place de la Concorde, and back across the river to the lef...