Rosalind and Alan Cuthbertson are authors, owners, and content creators of Frequent Traveller. A leading travel blog designed to help you get more out of travel. Come along to learn about us, how we quit our jobs to travel the world, and how our many years of travel experience can help you.
Five months in Asia (and a month we didn’t plan for)
Frequent Traveller News We have just returned to Australia after five months travelling through Asia. We love this lifestyle that allows us to divide our time between travelling the world and being home in the land of kangaroos and beaches. Of course, this lifestyle can get tricky, and our last trip was an example of this. Sickness and an unplanned visa run made us realise just how vulnerable you can be in a foreign land. I began feeling unwell not long after we arrived in Vietnam, and two weeks later Alan started having the same flu-like symptoms. The virus really knocked us about and we hardly left our apartment in Da Nang for over a month. As you can imagine, this disrupted many of our travel plans. Being sick for so long meant our visa was running out before we were ready to leave, so we had to cross into Laos and come back in on a new one. You can read more about doing a border run between Vietnam and Laos on our sister site Step Into Vietnam. We were so thankful to have travel insurance, but in hindsight, one thing we wish we had set up before we left is Air Doctor. It is a network of English-speaking registered medical practitioners across 78 countries, and you can book a clinic visit, a home visit or a video consultation. When you are too unwell to leave your apartment, the home visit and video options alone would have made things a lot easier. Signing up for Air Doctor will give you that extra peace of mind on your next trip overseas. Read our guide to finding a doctor while travelling. If you are interested in Vietnam travel, the Step Into Vietnam website is filled with informative travel guides, hotel reviews and Vietnam travel tips. Have you ever been sick while travelling overseas? Hit reply and tell us how you handled it. Safe travels, Alan and Ros Thinking about a move to Thailand? Our eBook Moving to Thailand from Australia covers the whole journey, visas to daily costs. Read the first chapter free Are you travelling soon? Use our links below to book! Accommodations - We recommend booking.com Disclaimer: This email may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These commissions help reduce the ever-increasing costs of keeping our site up. Thanks! We hope you enjoy our articles and as always feel free to contact us if you have any travel questions. We wish everyone the absolute best, stay safe, well and continue to keep your dreams alive whatever they may be. Ros and Alan |
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Rosalind and Alan Cuthbertson are authors, owners, and content creators of Frequent Traveller. A leading travel blog designed to help you get more out of travel. Come along to learn about us, how we quit our jobs to travel the world, and how our many years of travel experience can help you.
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