13th of February, my birthday! A day on which I missed my dear ones heartbreakingly much, but this year it was one birthday I will not forget quickly. As a result of Marcels hard work to make it into a great happy day! It started with some cake at 12:00pm in Hanoi, and a Skype call to my sister and afterwards a Skype call to my mommy and daddy. Great to hear their voices, and the comforting words of Marcel were true: "don't be too sad honey, Roos, your dad and mo...

Because it's been so long since my last blog I will try to put our Vietnam journey into two blogs. Since we are in Vietnam we got the feeling of being billionaires. Because of the beautiful sights we got to see, the great people we got to meet and the great experiences we had in this country. Oh, and the currency. As I mentioned in my last blog our plan was to visit a little island near Halong Bay; Quan Lan. To get here was a slight challenge, because we try to ...

We've seen a lot since my last blog! From Hong Kong we went by train to Guangzhou (2hrs) stayed there for one night and took the bus to Nanning (10hrs), two days after staying in Nanning and arranging our visa for Vietnam we took the train to Hanoi (15hrs). So a lot of travel in little time and a chance to reflect on China-Vietnam for its differences and similarities. China (so far, 'cause we've only seen big cities). China is a lot of people. And this is refl...