TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

Hello there – Kalimera! Moi here lounging at the Gold Fish, one of the many cafes on Skiathos Old Port... having a chilled Greek frappe here to welcome our summer holiday on Skiathos island. Dutchman and I have been on Skiathos Island for a week already. It’s both our first time on this lovely Sporades island. Our original plan was to go to Karpathos in the Dodecanese Islands but we saw this Skiathos deal that we could not just pass up, so instead, we booked Skiathos =) RED EYE FLIGHT Skiathos is the only island in the Sporades group of islands that has an airport. The island has charter flights starting end of April (or beginning of May) until October. Most of the charter flights coming from Amsterdam are helaas, red-eye flights. We arrived on the island at half-past 10 on the morning of Thursday last week on a 06:10 red-eye flight which means we were at Schiphol Amsterdam airport at 04:00 (leaving home at 03:00). I didn’t get to sleep well the night ...

Kalispera from the Greek Islands! I am in Skiathos Island right now which is part of the Sporades group of islands in the north-west of Greece in the Aegean Sea in the Thessaly region. It is a small island so we have been visiting the neighbouring sister islands as well. This sunset view of Skiathos old town is taken on top of the Agios Nikolaos Church and Clock Tower. Skiathos is a very charming place! Will, of course, be blogging about the island in the days and months to come. Panorama of Skiathos Old Town in the Sporades Islands (Greece). The Church of Agios Nikolaos and the Clock Tower on Skiathos Island. Skiathos Old Town from the Agios Nikolaos Church & Clock Tower. The view to the Bourtzi Peninsula dividing the Old and New Ports of Skiathos. Travel Period: June 2017 Destination: Skiathos Old Town, Sporades (Thessaly), Greece Keep in touch and follow me on Facebook: Travel & Lifestyle Diaries by Dutched Pinay Travels Hap...

In Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, we booked our hotel in District 1 right beside the Ben Thanh market. We wanted to be centrally located to the important attractions and in an area that is oozing with activity day and night. I took this picture from our room at Avanti Hotel, zoomed in. By day, the Ben Thanh area is busy with many local shoppers, street vendors roaming around and curious tourists eager to taste a bit the local Vietnamese market life. But by night when the market closes down, the adjacent market streets come to life! What is sweeter for us is that from our hotel room, which has a floor to ceiling one-way tinted glass wall, we were indulged with a fantastic view of the goings-on of the night market below. This was our view every single evening. There is a feeling of being one with the market for sure. You know, that feeling that despite we were not actually down there below, we felt like we were. BEN THANH NIGHT MARKET  I managed to make a video of t...