As usual, determined not to spend long on my own, I met a girl - Marianne - at Hanoi airport to chat too. It turned out, I was much more experienced at travelling than her, as she had been studying at the uni in Saigon and had just gone up to visit friends in Hanoi. We stuck together, before and after the plane, when we arrived at Bangkok. Thailand is obviously a little concerned about its image to tourists as we were all handed bags full of lychees as we arri...

I continued with my illogical route around South-East Asia with a trip to Bangkok, via KL. I arrived at KL airport in the morning and bumped into Matt - the one whose fault it was I was in Borneo in the first place as he wouldn't stop talking about it! (thanks Matt - owe you one!) He was off to Indonesia - via KL as well - on the same flight, so we hung out together once again. We'd both allowed the same amount of time in KL - too long - so made the most of the...