Chuc Mung Nam Moi - thanks Happy New Year to You in Vietnamese as it's Tet here and everyone is busy celebrating. The streets of Hanoi are busy with mopeds at the best of times. As Evan says all the streets are one way it's just that they have not worked out which way yet.....now it's new year not only does a typcial moped carry mum, dad, a 4 year old and baby, it also carries a kumquat tree, a blossom branch and packages of new year delicacies. This ...

From Luang Prabang we headed to the small village of Nong Khiaw on a very crowded bus, it's such a beautiful place as hopefully you can see from the pic. We spent 3 days having wicked Swallows and Amazons adventures ....over to Evan. When we arrived we managed to find a decent little guest house for the princely sum of 2 pounds a night and set off walking to the local place of interest a cliff cave where people had hidden duiring various wars mostly it see...

Hey everyone, so we're chilling here in Luang Prabang, which as everyone so far has said at least once a day - it's a really laid back vibe here! We've been bombing around on bicycles, visiting markets, and Wats, lots of Wats... and sorry there aren't any Laos pictures in the Off exploring library so I'll get some of our own once we work out how to upload them! The French influence is really evident here and the town is a Unesco site which i...

We left you in Chang Mai where we had just had a day with elephants and were about to do a cooking course. That was loads of fun, and undoubtedly we will dazzle you all with our astounding pad thai and spring rolls when we return. The teachers were lots of fun and we met some lovely people too. We also got to set light to our woks - photos to follow! The following morning we set off for the Laos border. Not much to say about this minibus trip apart from that it...

I found neither tesco lotus ( too tired to go, and this visit is clearly in the insterests of research and perhaps to buy some provisions for our 3 day boat trip coming up, not because this blog endorses tesco. )or a massage so here I am telling you about some stuff we did. So we met Kath and Richard for tea which was cool esp when Kath made friends with a mouse in the bar we went to and Richard started feeding it monkey nuts. It's wildlife all the way becaus...