Woke up to celebrate our wedding anniversary! How lucky are we.Breakfast AGAIN but definitely toned down to the bare essentials of cereal and fruit. It seems like a marathon of gluttony and it is not so much "at the table" that hurts it's the aftermath of continually feeling bloated.We tried to walk it off with our APT tour guide Twee. But really didn't get into stride. It was a bus tour with stopovers and inspections of some of the architectural highligh...

The loud speaker was blaring. The shrill voice barked instructions. The marching music was bouncing off the high rise buildings. It was a rude awakening to Day 4. I seriously thought I had woken up in the opening chapters of Marsden's "Tomorrow when the war began!" The streets were blocked off and from our 12th floor window we could see yellow shirts, red shirts and green shirts moving down Uncle Ho's avenue. And it was only 5.30 am!Forget level 1 and bre...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That was so much better. 8 hours straight. Slept so deeply in a room perfectly chilled, didn't even miss the water bed. And without putting the jinx on ourselves, the stomachs were rock solid!Breakfast recounts are going to get boring! The options are amazing. Suffice to say that the Ying and Yang selections are obvious. Mac and Richard think they are dining Brazilian and Loraine and I opt for the more cholesterol friendly fruit and gra...

Well good morning Vietnam. We woke to wet streets in Ho Chi Minh and overcast skies. But this was just the teaser to a scorcher at 35 degrees with 80% humidity.The alarm sounded at 6 am to ensure a 6.45 reconnaissance with the Sheraton Breakfast Buffet. What a spread. If you can imagine a particular food item - it was somewhere to be found. Ethnicity and culture and culinary preferences were no barrier in this setup. Acres of tables ladened with food and all mann...

YES, YES, YES, YES (for the movie buffs....l bet you want what she's having.) Today is THE day. After counting down for 150 days, our seed of an idea is real.  It really is only a hop skip and a jump to Vietnam and after careful co-ordination all roads from Sydney and Brisbane converged on Singapore for the final leg of the journey. The alarm stirred us to action at 4 am - this after a midnight finish just tidying up the last details of the trip and the last...