Beijing 18th - 20th December 2010 Magical & fantastic, followed by earth shatteringly bad. I wrote the beginning part of this Blog whilst I was there, and jotted the rest of the notes down just after I got back. Beijing turned out to be horrific, not through any fault of its own, but due to events happening in the UK. Beijing is my last destination before heading home, and I've had very mixed feelings about coming here. The Pro's are I've wanted ...

Sorry for the wait peeps! These have literally been just over a year in the making, but now make one nicely completely set. :) I thought I'd better get my butt in gear before I start planning & training for the next adventure. I wrote most of these whilst I was away, but have only just now got round to proofing them and finally uploading them. Can you believe my travel book cost is coming in at £164!!! If that doesn't teach me not to babble as much I don't k...

Halong Bay 9th - 10th December 2010 Halong bay is a collection of over 3,000 islands sitting off the east coast of Vietnam and I spent and a day and night sailing around them. Unfortunately this was anything but relaxing, but it got me out of Ha Noi and it was highly entertaining, so much so I was honestly waiting for the cameras of You've been framed to appear from nowhere. The joke in Thailand is that somehow in the unorganised chaos that everything appears ...

Ha Noi 7th - 9th December 2010 My visit to Ha Noi isn't going very well for a vast number of reasons. Beware, this is a proper rant! Firstly I feel so isolated. Vietnam has managed to block almost every means of communicating with the outside world (some have been officially blocked, and some magically appear not to work but they deny it's blocked). I've honestly never felt so alone whilst on my travels, not even when we were up in Cape Tribulation livi...

Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City 3rd - 7th December 2010 My journey to Vietnam was pretty interesting and started with an overnight bus journey from Siem Reap, Cambodia at 2am. It wasn't a sleeper coach, so got as much shut eye as I could whilst sitting up straight, which wasn't a lot but at least it was something. One thing I've learnt whilst travelling is how to sleep absolutely anywhere! Lol. We got to the Cambodia / Thailand border at 7am and all had to get ...