Hello from Hong Kong!! We have really enjoyed our fleeting visit here in HK! It's brought back so many memories of when I lived out here and it has been great staying with Sholan and Chau for a few days. Hong Kong is as exciting as ever. We have loved staying with Sholan and Chau in their flat and enjoying home comforts for a while!! We've also had some really delicious food including dim sum, takoyaki and last night we ate in Waru Waru!!! We al...

Hello!! Big news!! Aki and I have finally made up our minds and decided to buy a round-the-world air ticket and continue travelling for another year. We have been umming and ahhing for ages about whether or not we are doing the right thing spending all that money..but we have finally concluded that what's money if not for enjoying?!! So, we have now bought our tickets that will take us from Asia back to Europe, to Paris and Spain; then onto Central a...

Hello everyone!!! We have just arrived back in Bangkok after flying last night from Hanoi. We got a really cheap Air Asia flight - they are a bit like Easyjet - for just 39USD!! We had a wonderful last week in Sapa trekking and then in Halong Bay. Sapa was definately the highlight of Vietnam for us even though the weather was terrible..thunder and lightening storms!! The local minority peoples were incredibly friendly (especially when you buy something ...

Hello from Hanoi, Vietnam!!! We have been here now for three weeks and have travelled from Ho Chi Minh city in the south to Hanoi in the north. We started with a three day trip through the Mekong Delta with a homestay and then have travelled by bus along the coast, stopping at the major cities along the way. We especially loved Hoi An with it's beautiful Old Town. Vietnam is such an interesting country... the beautiful World Heritage sites, it's...

Hello everyone from Cambodia!!! Sorry it's been a while since we updated this site - it's not from want of trying!!! We've been unable to find a computer that lets us upload our photos onto the internet and we were waiting until we could. Cambodia has been an unexpected surprise. We had heard so many negative things from other travellers in Thailand that we had begun to think of it as something we had 'to get through' rather than a place to enjoy. We -...