in true oscar style, i want to thank... my family for all their support from the first moment i started to talk about this trip nicky and every one at work who made it possible to all my friends who have been thinking about me and sending me messages to adam and t for fabulous flat caring duties to sin (pronounced shin) the pouting buddha of vietnam and to tri and deng who make up the trinity of faces all of which go towards making vietnam the facsinating country that it is to all the gods and all the saints of all the religions that have touched my path to the people i've met on my trips who have all made it special in their own way, especially fran and david - trip 1 belinda - trip 2 linda and peter - trip 3 to emma, tania and some bloke called steve - trip 4 and to anwar, who i didn't actually meet, cos i was never really there...