well yesterday we began our intrepid tour and we met up with the rest of the group. there are 11 of us and a group leader so its a bit tricky keeping up with names but i think ive just about cracked it!! theres Rhonda and Mike (an aussie couple), Patrick (tasmania), Paul (New zealand), lissa and yael (canada), Sarah (england), Mitz-something (canada - told you i wasnt too good at names) and Glen from gillingham in kent!!! what a small world we live in!! he wen...

so we are now in Vietnam, Hanoi to be precise and i am loving it already. we have only been here a matter of hours and i am glad that we are now here and not in china anymore! we had a great day on thursday in yangshou despite the rain by going along the river on a bamboo raft then going caving in amongst the karst mountains. we hired bikes for the day but decided to be skinflints and get the cheapest ones we could so for about 35p we got bikes for the day whic...