Regards everyone, hope everyone had a great Christmas and a lovely new year. We certainly did (update to follow). Thanks for all the calls, messages, texts, cards and presents, they were all very much appreciated and, if we're honest, made us miss home slightly. So, on with the story.... We left Hoi An to catch the 17 hour train journey to Saigon (it's officially named Ho Chi Minh city following the country's reunification but everyone refers to the city as it'...

Hi everyone, Again, thanks for all the messages. V funny, always greatly received! Emma - Happy Birthday, sweetheart. Hope you have a really good day. How old are you now? 16? So, after the hideousness that was Da Nang, we rose early the next morning to get the hell out of there. We headed for Hoi An, which we had been told was pretty flooded (we'd met quite a few people who had gone there and left the same day) but we decided to give it a go anyway -...

Hello everyone - we're a bit behind on our blogs so my humble apologies.Iin a toss up between lying on a white sand beach or sitting in a sweaty internet café, there's only one choice. We're actually now in Thailand again, but I'll continue with the story in central Vietnam….. So after our trip around the DMZ in central Vietnam, our next journey was a 4 hour bus journey to Danang. The journey itself was made by public transport, and although it r...

Evening everybody, hope all is well back in blighty - as I construct yet another blog entry on a PC that is about as useful as a one-handed bricklayer in Baghdad, I understand the pain you are going through in not having our photo's updated to coincide with the latest entry - the reason is that there isn't much by the way of broadband here in SE Asia so will give it a go on the next PC we come across that as I write, the letters appear less than 10 seconds later&...

Hello everyone, once again thanks for the messages on the site, too many to respond to, but keep them coming - they are providing great entertainment not only for us, but also for big Kev Howarth who tunes in first to the messages as they're "often bloody funny", before he actually reads the blog. Cheers pops! Anyway, after Nicola's rather less than detailed and biased opinion of Hanoi (I mean she was attacked rather viciously by a mean Hanio pavemen...