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 ...