It's been a funny old day! We managed to eventually pick our hire car up this morning for the trip to Niagara, despite the car-rental place being cunningly hidden in an underground shopping mall. In the food court. 'Between Burger King and Timmy Horton's, you can't miss us!' After a pleasant drive, we arrived at Niagara Falls, and went straight to the Helicopter place for a flight over the Falls. They weren't busy, 'I'll just page your helicopter, you'll be in t...

Just after we touched down in Canada, and the pilot announced it was windy, raining, and 4 degrees outside, I realised that perhaps we shouldn't have packed our jackets away in the cases. Everyone else on the 'plane was putting on big coats and scarfs, while we just stood there in flip-flops, shorts, and t-shirts, feeling inappropriately attired (not quite that inappropriate, but not far off!). The jet-lag had us up early on our first full day, and we were out t...

So, Part 2...! Lamby's ready, and the countdown has started! We're off again on Saturday, and we can't wait. The bags are packed, and are lighter than at the start of 'trip 1', as we've packed fewer shoes, clothes, books, and medicaments. We've also left out the huge supplies of toilet-roll, alcohol gel, and moist hand-wipes that we took (and didn't need) for Vietnam and Cambodia. Anyway, we're going to the land of 'too much choice', there will be plenty of retai...

So, our last day in Hong Kong. After much messing about, we've managed to book a flight home. It's a good job we've got an increased luggage allowance, because our bags are a lot heavier than when we started out! Even though we posted 6kg of gear back from Australia, the weight has crept back up, and we've been expecting 'excess luggage' charges on our last few flights. Each time we've put our hefty bags on the scales at check-in, we've expected an equally hefty ...

Well, our time in SE Asia is over, and we've had a great time. We're now in HK, and we've decided to come home early and give Japan a miss, due to the Earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown situation, we're such lightweights! The receptionist here almost got a smack, as when Sal told her we should have been flying to Osaka, she sneered 'well Osaka is quite safe actually'! She's obviously a stranger to the maxim 'the customer is always right', snooty cow! This hot...