Travel

By Glen Bruels

A day in Danang and Hue, Vietnam

This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Well, we have reached our first port after leaving Hong Kong – Danang, Vietnam.  Unfortunately, we are only spending one day here and we had to choose between staying to look around Danang or heading to the Imperial City of Hue (A UNESCO World Heritage…

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By Glen Bruels

Some thoughts on Hong Kong…

This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Greetings all!  We’ve spent 5 days in Hong Kong before leaving on our ship for the cruise.  It has been a great way to acclimate to the time change and, in some respects, renew acquaintances with an “old friend” (Glen and friend, Ken, independently first…

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By Glen Bruels

Lovedale Long Lunch

Given that we had purchased a car, and hadn’t put a lot of miles (oops, kilometers!) on it, we decided to visit another of Australia’s wine regions — the Hunter Valley.  This is one of Australia’s oldest wine producing regions, getting its irrigation from the Hunter River which traverses this very long valley area (over…

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