we're home and we both have jobs. GOOD GOOD, finally we can start our lives properly.

Hue was our first stop in Vietnam, an extremlely old town, unfortunately in the middle of the conflict with the north and south of the country and of course the american army. It was quite badly bombed especailly the mountains but Unesco are cleaning it up verywell. The hills are the sets for all those gruesum vietnam movies. We stumbled across a great hotel, very cheap with aircon! Dave and I went on the best tour yet! A moter bike taxi each, with our tour gid...

From Chan Mai it took the four of us three days to reach Luang Prabang, a small city in the north of Laos. Our trip took us 1 bus ride to the border then an over night stay looking over the river Mekong to Laos. Beautiful sunset over the mountains and expanse of river. A boat ride to the border then on to the big boat we were going to be on for 6 hours. As we walked on the boat we immediately refused, us being the first of a big group of tourists. Tiny up-right w...

Thought we'd do our catch up's in little blocks as realised it has been ages since we put up anything and we have done so much!!! So...we left Nick May, not much browner but deffinately happy and relaxed with his advanced open water diving course under his belt. Had a romantic evening in Ko Samui and flew to Bangkok. Had a really nice time of 7hrs in the airport, no really we had our hair cut, lunch, free food and drinks in the lounge and chairs we could sleep ...

Thought I had better stop! Carry on...Or the site goes down and we loose everything. Okay so next an excrutiating 11hr journey to Koh Samui...in all five or six very small buses (11 seater) took us to and around the port to Koh Samui, not sure what happened but we were ferried back and forth to different bus stations and tour booking places, back to the organised chaos! Of course we did get our ferry and arrive on time to be shown a lovely hostel (Pearl Cabana...