We're FINALLY here!!!! Honking-happy Hanoi, the absolute number one, top of the pops, first thing you notice is the traffic. There are literally NO rules, pedestrian, bike, car it really doesn't matter, you can use what ever part of the pavement or road you can fit on. There are traffic lights but no one pays attention to them and pedestrian crossings don't get a go anyway! To cross the road you literally walk out and bikes drive around you. I've tried to ta...

We failed to make it through Heathrow without getting into trouble with the authorities. I'd packed some extra suncream, on Steph's advice, and it turned out to be double the amount I was allowed. Luckily the rubber gloves stayed away, not sure Steph hadn't planned the whole thing! The take off was not ideal, despite being very comforting I think Steph was as worried as I was. I haven't been in a vehicle that swerved that much since driving up the 127 with ...

ThailandVisas!! Bad news from Thailand today. Thailand has reduced their land-border visas from 30 to 15 days. For a country that gets 6% of it's GDP from tourism they sure are doing a bad job of promoting it! The government has said it's to stop people renewing the 30 day visas and staying in the country indefinately but as part of the new measures they've also scrapped the maximum number of times you can renew a visa! All this means that we now have to mak...