Monday 5 October Such a good sleep. Maybe there is something to be said for staying up all night!! Malcolm books our flights to Dublin. No more England for us. We have breakfast provided by the hotel, but it's very tasteless. Watery rice soup, plain salt less buns, beans, and hard boiled eggs. We spend the morning writing cards, researching and planning the next steps. After 12 we leave our bags at reception and go across the road for steamed buns. We get 10! D...

Sunday 4 October The night is very long. We are thankful for the stool! About 9ish we get to a stop were lots get off and we grab a seat. Now we can switch between the stool and the seat. The Passageway is much clearer. We can breathe and move without care now. We think the train will arrive at 10 am, but that comes and goes. It's about 10:44 when we arrive and we weave our way through the station. The metro is close and we catch it for 6 stops. On the metro T...

Saturday 3 October I simply love love love this place and am so glad we got to stay here. We eat and pack our bags and relax on the roof. The roof is such a nice space. We ask the owners to arrange a taxi for us to town and we share it with some other ppl making it quite cheap indeed. It's pretty much straight off the taxi into the bus and it's a noisy bumpy ride. The horn is so blaring and the driver seems to have many many occasions to use it. The toilet at t...

Friday 2 October It's a lovely relaxing morning to enjoy with out any pressure catching up on things. We have a nap and go for a long walk through the countryside. There are hundreds on bamboo rafts on the river today ferrying ppl up and down, shading with umbrellas. It looks like a rainbow. There are two men with nets collecting tags from the drivers when they go under the bridge. Not quite sure what they mean. We see butterflies and chickens, ducklings and far...

Thursday 1 October We are up for breakfast before 9. The plan is moon hill and town and back. Each is about 8 km away in a triangle. We head off on mountain bikes for for use by the house. On advise of another guest, a man from hungry working here for a year, we head off 'the back way'. It starts off mainly paved and along the river until we turn off into a small thin path that weaves itself between ppl's gardens and rice paddy's. The all the surrounding hills ...