Reasons to go North

Already more than twenty days into the New Year! From writing about two or three hikes a week I am shrunk to one ‘every so often’....

I am frequently asked ‘what do you like most about Ho Chi Minh’. The answer: food and people. And in the absence of mountains my ‘social...

Houses packed as close as Lego bricks with little room for a blade of grass let alone a garden in parts of Ho Chi Minh. But up on roof...

Yorkshire and the rocks of the Coldstone Cut are 10206.6k from Ho Chi Minh. I had no expectations of how my life would before I crossed...

Eventually. 6366 miles, three countries en-route and I arrived in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City. The ‘work a day’ and...

Posted by reasons on May 13, 2014 in Blog, Cumbria, Food | 0 comments

This week my son is 24 and my father, well to quote him ‘will be 100 in 12 years time!’ Much to be grateful for. Both my parents alive and...