So what is Cambodia like? Well Phnom Penh is surprisingly modern, lots of wide streets, more cars than in other countries ( where life is conducted from the back of a Motorbike.) and sparkly new hotels being built and so on. Yet there are also lots of people living on the streets, and lots of landmine victims begging. The ubiquitous kids selling copies of popular books, that we saw in Vietnam, continues. Instead of motorbike rides we're mainly asked if we wan...

Just to keep you entertained this is jennifers version of the mekong trip. Feel free to play spot the difference...... ..so the Mekong delta is a network of rivers and small canals in the south of Vietnam, this is the same river that we travelled down when we came from thailand into Laos. (You'll forgive me, spending lots of time with people who speak in English as their second language, european friends we have made, I end up with a very strange kind of...

We set off again at 8 in the morning on this trip through the mekong delta. normally i would have been tired but our tour guide looked variously like diego maradona (with cap on) or Nik Nak from the bond film (without cap) he also had the worlds shiftiest eyes which made all his tour guide speil sound bogus. anyway day one we drove to the river tasted some local fruit toured the natural canals had some lunch more boating through beautiful scenary other stuff like...

ok this is the third time i've typed this cos the web site seems to not like saving stuff at the moment. this will therefore be a brief update incase it packs up again. so in Saigon we managed to get a cheapish room with free internet and breakfast included the only catch was that it was on the 6th floor and didnt have a lift, just to add to the fun you walked up about 3 floors before it said you had reached the 2nd floor. it really didn't do to forget an...

So where did we last leave you? From Hanoi we journeyed south to Hue, the old capital of Vietnam. I immediately liked it, as I discovered that I am a bit of a celebrity here. Unlike Laos where i was asked if my freckles were a nasty itchy rash ( the cheek!)here I was asked to pose with small children in the manner of famous and glamorous film star. The fact that I mostly looked hot and discheveled is beside the point.......my ego aside though, things were much fr...