Friday 19 July 32C Warm - Cloudy and showers (wet season) I feel it necessary to add one extra day as we spent 13 hours in Ho Chi Minh City and enjoyed it very much. With our Business Class tickets we had the option to take a hotel for the day which included a city tour. The hotel is about 45 mins from the airport in peek traffic which we had both ways into and out of the city. After a 2 hour rest we were picked up at the hotel by a tour guide and car and tak...

16 July 2014 Hamburg to Frankfurt 25C Sunny I spent some time this morning packing as we are almost on our way home. Before leaving Hamburg, I climbed the St Michael's Tower which is just 50m from our apartment. The views are great and there were a lot of others up there enjoying the scenery. We then set off for the station to go to Frankfurt which is 4 hours by train. Once again it's an ICE which is a very comfortable ride and we get to speeds of 250km per...

15 July 2014 Hamburg Day trip to Bremen 24C Cloudy with sunny breaks Today we took a day trip to Bremen, it was just 55 mins by train on the ICE from Hamburg and in no time at all we had arrived. I had booked a walking tour in English at 2pm so we spent the morning having a look around at the Town Hall and Market Place in the centre of town and then took a look at the Waser River and visited St Martins Church. I then hit the shops which are very central in...

14 July 2014 Hamburg 22C Cool & Cloudy Surprisingly we got a good night's sleep considering Germany won the World Cup, a few horns honking, some fireworks exploding and it seemed to be business as usual today. We took the hop-on, hop-off bus this morning which had a commentary in English via ear phones. It was very comprehensive and we now know a lot more about Hamburg. We covered an extensive area some of which we had not reached on foot, but a lo...

13 July 2014 Hamburg 20C Cool & Showers It's Sunday and we're up and off early to visit the Hamburg Fischmarkt. This is a market that begins at 5am and goes until 9.30am and is a must for all visitors and an institution for all residents of Hamburg. Unfortunately the weather was a bit damp and cool but that did not deter us from checking out a lot of the stalls and purchasing a couple of the local delicacies - fish sandwiches (Fischbrotchen for b...