The theme letter for our travel pics this week is W, for Worldmark. For Wednesday, it’s a Worldmark South Pacific resort – Treetops, at Coffs Harbour. Treetops is one of two resorts in the quiet seaside holiday, about 400km south of Brisbane, and about 530km north of Sydney. The other resort is the older “Terraces’…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is W, for Worldmark. Since we bought into holiday ownership with Worldmark (or Trendwest, as it was when we started in 2001) we’ve stayed at a number of US Worldmark properties including Dolphins Cove Anaheim (near Disneyland), Las Vegas (Tropicana) and San Diego (Balboa Park) .. but the first…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is W, for Worldmark. Shirley and I are owners at Worldmark – a sort of time-share holiday group with properties in North America, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and now Indonesia. One of those properties is Denarau Island, in Nadi, Fiji. Nadi, by the way, is pronounced…
The theme letter for our travel pics the last two weeks has been V, for Vietnam. Our final image comes from Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon – and its of my shadow as I took a Xich Lo (or Cyclo) ride around HCMC Cyclo rides are a great way to see the city –…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week again is V, for Vietnam. Our second last picture is in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as its better known to westerners. HCMC is the name given to the city by the winners of the Vietnamese civil war – but just to confuse matters, the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is again V, for Vietnam. For Friday, it’s a temple shrouded in smog, in the middle of a lake, itself in the middle of Hanoi. Well, strictly speaking, this photo was taken FROM a temple – but the image is of the “Tower of the Turtle”.…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is again V, for Vietnam. The Mekong Delta – for a generation of westerners, the very words conjure up visions of intrigue, and danger – and of beauty and excitement, and a dozen other emotions mixed together. For the tourist in Vietnam, the Mekong Delta…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For Wednesday of this week, lets go shopping! Here you can see the heads of a group of Aussie tourists, as we get set to head into the Hoi An markets. The Hoi An central markets are regarded as one of the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. (Yes, I know that was last week’s theme – but we decided to do a V2) Most tourists, when they go to Vietnam, will be offered a cruise on Halong Bay. So, what’s in store? Well, when we did a two-day cruise, we…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. (Yes, I know that was last week’s theme – but we decided to do a V2) Our first in this second week is of Vietnamese women wearing the Ao Dai – the uniquely Vietnamese fashion that is elegant – but highly impractical.…
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