Well, Ho Chi Minh City is not the kind of place you want to be in when you've had 2 hours sleep, may have drank a little too much the night before and you're far too hot. Our taxi driver from the airport told us it was a small city where 20 million people live and 5 million motorbikes & scooters are on the roads. That was before he tried to rip us off. We agreed $9 (they use a lot of US dollars here) yet 10 minutes later he was saying it was $12 plus a toll f...

I'm taking my stats back. The taxi driver was a liar as well trying to con us! Our tour guide yesterday for the Cu Chi tunnels told us that 9 million people live in Saigon...with 6 million motorbikes. That's 2 in every 3 people. He also said that it only takes 1 day to get your motorbike licence. You can tell. He also told us not to get upset today as Vietnam now has no problem with France or America. The tour is more about how the people pulled together to survi...

Quickie Blog * Ben jumped in the swimming pool in Phangan with his wallet in his pocket - he had all the money * There are no words to describe the full moon party but il try: 10,000 people, lots of body paint, stages so high I needed 3 people to get me up, buckets everywhere, raving like never before, Germans on the way home saying they loved Mr. Bean * Awful hangover the next day * 17 hours to Bangkok-better & a more comfy coach with more space * Ben w...

This is the life. I'm currently on a sunlounger on a beautiful, sunny beach, where the sea is so calm that there aren't any waves, with my gorgeous boyfriend and a beer. These moments may not be the ones you'll tell stories about throughout your life-like you will about the Great Wall, scuba diving on the Barrier Reef, the full moon party or hiking a glacier in New Zealand but in your own mind they'll definitely be up there and possibly easier to imagine. The bee...

So paradise has been left behind and I am currently writing this en route to the East coast to get to Ko Samui island. To fill in the gaps from my brief post last time though. The snorkelling we did on the boat trip was unreal. Beautifully coloured fish around the coral, even fish like angelfish. There were some small light blue and yellow fish that kept quite close to the surface and at one point I turned around to find myself in the middle of a shoal of them. ...