intheFRAME

daniel's photography blog

Durchsuche Beiträge in Travel / Reisen

So here I am in Dallas, Texas on a business trip. Its Saturday, and I have a weekend to kill. Having never been at the real Oktoberfest in Munich, what better to get beginners accreditation on the Wiesn in Addison, TX. And, it was right beside my hotel anyway, which besides giving me a good [...]

We left Nghia Lo at around 9am today. Hoang warned us, once again, that we would experience ‘very simple life’. I think he is worried that we will be disappointed at the hotels, food, towns and what have you. He also mentioned that we were a very rare species in this part of Vietnam, as [...]

Pick-up at the hotel was at 8:30. By that time, we had to eat breakfast, pack and get to the lobby. Not that they would have left without us. You see, we were very privelaged and had a private tour, so just our driver Manh, our guide Hoang, my dad and yours truly. After throwing [...]

The horrible sound of an alarm clock woke me at 6am. Thanks to the “Symphony of Horns“, I realized quickly that I was waking up in Hanoi. By 6:30, my dad and I hit the streets of the old quarter. From our lodging at the Viet Hotel on Hang Than (Hang=Street), we meandered along Dong [...]

We left from Zurich in the evening, treating ourselves to business class seats for the long trip to Bangkok. Good god I work for an airline, that makes that part affordable. Hopping off the plane in Bangkok, the heat and humidity almost knocked us back into the SWISS A340-300. The flight was quiet and smooth; [...]