36 pieces · 2023–2025
Travel
Thirty-one days across Thailand, Japan and Vietnam in 2023, and a long weekend in Munich two summers later — written up a day at a time, on the road.
Munich Trip
Day 5: Munich Trip
I thought the blog was over but something crazy happened on the final day.
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Day 4: Munich Trip
With nothing on the schedule until 10, I gave myself the luxury of waking up a bit later at 7:30.
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Day 3: Munich Trip
I woke up at 5:15 this morning again to catch a train.
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Day 2: Munich Trip
The day started extremely early. After going to bed at 1 AM, I woke up at 5:15 to have enough time to wake up and make…
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Day 1: Munich Trip
This trip was planned very last minute as an effort to stave off the increasing boredom I'd had in my first work-free…
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Asia Trip
Day 31 - Qatar layover
We weren’t going to let a 12 hour layover in Qatar go to waste. Last night, we booked a tour for Qatar.
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Day 30 - 3rd day of Ha Giang Loop and leaving
We woke up to rain. Igor decided to wait a little so we ended up departing around 10:30 Our first stop was a waterfall…
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Day 29 - Day 2 of Ha Giang Loop
Another day of incredible views We took pictures at what Igor considered the nicest view of the whole trip I had what…
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Day 28 - Day 1 of Ha Giang loop
We woke up around 8 AM to meet our tour guides and motorcycle drivers in the hostel lobby.
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Day 27
We booked a day tour late last night for Ninh Binh.
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Day 26 - Last Shabbat of the trip in Hanoi
We had a great time at the Chabad of Hanoi.
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Day 25
We left around 11 to the Hanoi old quarter.
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Day 24 - Flying to Vietnam
Avi and I woke up at 5 am to catch the train for our flight We landed in Hanoi at around 1 Pm local time and took a…
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Day 23
Third day of Avi and I on our own journeys in Tokyo I began my day at Yoyogi park - a huge park next to the shrine id…
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Day 22
Another day of Avi and I doing different things in Tokyo I began my day on Kappabashi street - a street selling goods…
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Day 21
Avi and I split up today since we both wanted to spend our time seeing different parts of Tokyo I began my day with the…
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Day 20
Today was packed. We began our day by traveling by bullet train to Mt Fuji.
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Day 19- Shabbat #3 - Chabad of Kyoto
Shabbat was great. There was a group of about 80 Israeli bank workers and their families with us at the Chabad so it…
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Day 18
We began today by going to the house connected with our hotel.
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Day 17
We started the day by traveling to Kyoto.
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Day 16
The day began a bit late - we got out of the hotel at 10:30 AM. We took public transportation to Mount Rokko in Kobe.
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Day 15
We began our day with some coffee from a local shop We then took the subway to the Osaka Castle - a castle which was…
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Day 14 - First Day in Japan!!
After flying through the night, with a quick stopover in Kuala Lumpur, we reached Osaka, Japan.
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Day 13 - Last Day in Thailand
We began our day by picking up our laundry from a local laundry service (if you’re wondering how we packed enough…
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Day 12 - Motzei Shabbat #2
It finally happened- I got sick. Friday night was relatively normal.
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