You may have noticed that I have been pretty crap at keeping my blog up to date, so although I am writing about Ho Chi in Vietnam I’m actually sitting in a hotel room On Ko Phangan in Thailand. The weather is so hot today that I have decided that ‘outside’ is no place for a skinny white boy to be! So I have splashed out 600b on an air conditioned room where I am going to sit and get up to date with my blog. I have Chocolate Chip Cookies two litres of wate...

Well we had a fairly un eventful trip down to Nha Trang, arrived early evening, my first impression was that it was a really touristy town and I was right.Everything else was pretty run of the meal, food was quite expensive, the weather was too humid to do anything, the hotel was ok, aside from the building works which started at 5am!!! You can probably guess my response to that. Oh we did go out island hoping on a boat for the day, we had lunch on the boat vis...

Glad to once again be out of the hustle and bustle of the city and even better than that we are heading to the beach!!! The bus journey was a five hours along the twisty costal roads the scenery was absolutely stunning, to the extent that I’m not sure my photography will do it justice! Our first ‘happy house’ (SE Asian word for toilet – I think my happy house/rave dance every time it is mentioned may be wearing thin!) stop was a bar on a stretch of stun...

The journey south to Hue didn't start well, an 11 hour train journey on the crappiest of crap sleeper trains.I had been so used to the Chinese sleeper trains which are fairly modern, they have good food cars and hostess trolleys with fresh fruit, snacks and beer every half an hour or so.Because I was used to the Chinese trains and our guide didn't think to tell us that there would be no food for sale on the train I didn't bring anything with me.So for the first 3...

We caught a coach out to Halong Bay, we then took one of the dozens of tour boats that lined the dock. Luckily for us ours was a private boat so we didn’t have to cram on to one of the shuttle buses ferrying people across the bay. Still our boat followed the rest of the boats out of the bay and towards the 1,969 islands, we dropped anchor half way out to Grotte des Merveilles and had lunch which was pretty cool, seafood platter and one of my favorite Vietname...