Left a rainy rainy Hue and travelled futhur south to Hoi An.  Really pretty little place, old buildings, French bakeries and a thousand tailors and shoemakers to meet your every clothing need.  Also here, rain!  So much so the river had flooded the riverbank and bridges.  So spent time, and money, getting clothes made instead!  We laughed at the tailor who said our hotel would be flooded the following day, it was miles away!  But...sure enough the next day ...

Said farewell to Singapore and headed to Bangkok to meet Anj, invloving green curry and a bit too much chang beer for our early morning flight to Hanoi, Vietnam. Took flight number 15 to Hanoi and began our month of Vietnamness. First stop...Hanoi, involving a million motorbikes, to cross the road involves ignoring all rules of road crossing and walking into traffic (as well as clutching Anj's hand)! Here we found some of the best food ever, eaten on small pla...

Not originally part of the plan, randomly decided that a trip to Borneo might be fun!Headed off from Singapore on Octobers flight number 6 and ventured to Sabah in north Borneo (Malaysian bit). Forgot two things about SE Asia 1) how you get treated for being western 2) how you get treated for being female! Reminded of these facts when attempted to book a bus to the east of the island and was swarmed by a seagull like flock of touts! However managed to find some s...

So began the month of endless flying!Left New Zealand and headed to Fiji, once there set off around the islands, starting with the most idillic island that took 5 minutes the walk the perimeter of! Many stunning beaches, continued to island hop and do some walking, and snorkling with reef sharks. Especially funny was watching a brazilian girl completely flip out when she spotted a shark....the trip was called shark reef, clue in the name there! Admittedly althoug...

Left the North Island via Wellington and some random welly wanging (gumboot throwing in Kiwi speak), which despite using Kerries tactics, lost! Embarked on an obligatory Lord of the Rings tour...alongside some crazy fanatics, they were more enteratining than the tour itself which was a bit random to say the least! Did get to see the most amazing gollum statue....good times! Aswell as a visit to the Collosal Squid, baked in formaldahyde, in the te papa museam, one...