One year trip diary — We went back to Japan for a week, but time passed quickly and now I am writing this in Negros Occidental, Philippines. I was busy while I was in Japan: researching about traveling in Japan and booking, interpreting Japanese and English with Chris, and blogging about the whole trip. We…

Travel Diary in Southeast Asia — On Monday 27 March, a flight from Singapore brought us to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam, with a population approaching 9 million in 2019. …

Travel Diary in Southeast Asia — On Sunday 26 March, we left Indonesia and arrived in Singapore. Entering Singapore at Changi Airport was smooth, as all we had to do was scan our passports. We had already registered our Arrival Card online. https://maiandchristravel.com/flying-from-makassar-to-singapore-with-batik-air/ However, when we tried to take the metro from the airport to the…

Travel Diary in Southeast Asia — We arrived in Ambon by boat this morning and went straight to the airport. There we bought tickets to Makassar and boarded the plane. https://maiandchristravel.com/travelling-from-banda-neira-to-ambon-on-the-pelni-boat-sabuk-106/ We used an Indonesian airline called Lion Air. Tomorrow, we will fly from Makassar to Singapore with Batik Air, another airline in the same group…

Travel Diary 旅行日記 久しぶりの投稿になります。Naomiさんが投稿されてるのにちょいと触発されました。最近はMediumには英語しか書いてなかったような気がします。たまには日本語も書いてみましょ、ということでバイリンガルにしてみました。 It looks like we have now arrived in the Indonesian city of Ambon. …

Travel Blog — After a stay in the UK, we went back to South-East Asia. We arrived in Bangkok at 6.30 in the morning on January 31, then, left for Singapore on a flight next morning. It was a long flight from Heathrow to Helsinki via Finnair, and from there to Bangkok, which…

Writing books — If you love writing, you will probably want to publish your own book at least once in your lifetime. Just a few years ago, publishing a book wasn’t something you could easily do just because you wanted to. …

One Year Trip — We are now in Nong Khai, Thailand and yesterday, we bought flight tickets from London to Bangkok. We are going to fly to London on the 19 of January. Going to England na January is not ideal when you don’t have enough clothes, but it’s for my husband’s mother’s birthday…

Southeast Asia Trip — We entered Laos from Hue, Vietnam on 1 December 2022 and stayed in Laos for five weeks before leaving for Thailand on 6 January 2023. We fell completely in love with Laos and would like to share some of the highlights here again. 1 December, entry to Laos from Hue, Vietnam From Hue, Vietnam, we travelled by bus…