After nearly missing my flight to Bali from Kuala Lumpur the week before I was not going to miss my flight from Singapore to Sydney, so I was really organised and got to the airport for about 5.30pm for my flight at 8, but then at check in I was talking to this Irish couple in the queue who said out flight was apparently coming from Frankfurt and had been delayed til 1am!! At least Singapore airport is good and they have loads of free internet computers and I g...

Ok so I will start with the story of my fall out with the woman from oz experience.. who originally a couple of days before new year was very helpful and reserved me a space on the bus leaving Sydney on the 3rd of jan because she said it was getting very full and by the time I bought my ticket it would be full. So I go back to the hostel and buy my bus pass online saving £500 (!!) but then when I went to see her to confirm my space on the bus.. she tells me its ...

Went with Jo to a place called Klong Muang or something like that.. really quiet place we just spent a few days on the beach.. still not quite high season so the beach was still pretty empty and one day we were able to crash the Sheraton and make use of their fancy pools and beach. Really nice place if you are after seclusion and peacefulness, but after staying in our bungalows.. with ants, gekkos and oh yeah.. scorpion! Ok it was smallish but still a scorpion an...

Last day in Hanoi we slept in the movie room in the hostel and watched some films before going for a wander and trying to find Lydia this red Vietnam t-shirt she wanted so it was not a busy day which was quite nice, its nice to have decent weather again! Then first thing the next morning we got a transfer to the airport to fly to Bangkok where I bought my baby! Shes a pink sony cybershot tx5 and i love her! Shes waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, temperature proo...

Turns out that there isn't actually that much in Hue, it was nice though. Just went to see a couple of sights on the 1st day and went to a cafe run by a deaf family in the evening. It was actually really good food and we all got these homemade bottle openers (a bit of wood with a screw on the end) but the guy demonstrated and it seemed to work ok for him, I haven't been brave enough to try it out yet though. It also tuned ou t that in Vietnam 20th October is Wome...