I crossed the border into Cambodia via the Mekong River. It was all very straight forward. We got off the boat and waited in a shady courtyard whilst our guide sorted out our visas and then went to the immigration desk and then back on the boat. Done in a about 40 minutes. We carried up the river to about half an hours drive from Phnom Penh and then a dozen of us bundled into a minibus together with our luggage piled high so that we couldn't see the driver in fro...

I arrived in Hanoi after a good but very long journey and it took a few days to recover. I stayed in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, full of narrow streets with tall 'tube' houses (so called as they are only one room across and several storeys high) with a hive of activity on the street outside. The other thing I was struck by was the hundreds of motorbikes and scooters weaving their way along the roads tooting their horns. In fact the biggest hazard I have encountered...