• Christmas markets: a scam or a Winter Wonderland?

    Amelia Cropley With the recent fall of November snow, it has become inevitable that the Christmas season is upon us once again. And with it comes every city’s celebration of Christmas lights, ice-skating rinks and mulled wine. And whilst nothing lifts the Christmas spirit more than a Christmas market,...
  • Adventure Thrifts: Ho Chi Minh City

    Talking to a friend about travelling to Vietnam, he casually remarked that I could take out VND 2,000,000 (yes, two million) and easily survive with this amount for the 5 days I had planned to spend there. Converting this ridiculously inflated currency back into GBP, you’ll be relieved and...
  • A-Z of capital cities: Hanoi

    To say Vietnam is an infamous country would be an understatement. America’s involvement in the war between the North and the South ended in the eventual failure of the South Vietnamese government, and the two halves being re-unified in 1975. As a result of this, many still consider Vietnam...