It's really hard trying to remember what happened since I last posted one of these. I'm writing my own diary (although not too well, diary writing is very similar to revision, in that I'm finding myself avoiding it at all times) but don't have it with me so I'll try to remember... On the night of Elephant day we went out, drank a lot of rum and coke, went to a reggae bar and stumbled back into the dorm in the early hours. The next day was mostly spent in bed and...

Thailand! So the first day was spent in airport, sitting for 7 hours on the same bench. It went surprisingly quickly but did feel like a complete waste of a day. Although, sitting around in Bangkok airport was much more fun than sitting around in a random train station, which we did fairly often in Europe! We arrived in Chiang Mai at night and didn't really do much other than check in, get some food, try a bit of local beer and go to sleep. The next day we walk...

Today is our last day in Vietnam, we fly out to Thailand tomorrow, we have a very exciting day planned- waiting 12 hours in an airport! Saturday night was really good, drank a lot in the hostel bar, did an 'upside down margharita', went out with some awesome people from our hostel and drank some more! Sunday was spent recovering. We went to see the 'water puppet dance show' but we were both knackered and ended up falling asleep for some of it. It wasn't very g...

Happy Birthday to Grace! I'm sure far too much money will be spent tonight, but at least we've got an excuse :) So, Halong Bay. It was a nice place, the boat we were on was surprisingly nice, we had our own twin room- for only the third time since we've been away. The only drawback was that there was no light in the bathroom, which meant showering in the dark- it's a good job I brought a torch! There were 16 people on the cruise and only one other person w...

Righto, so last day in Hong Kong... We didn't do much. We walked around for a bit, had another cup noodle for dinner and played cards at the hostel. We have playing cards with the theme 'famous dogs' (they were cheap) but it wasn't like Lassie or Pluto, it's actual types of dog, which was a little disappointing... It was then up at 5 (we made sure we said farewell to our crazy roommate as early in the morning as possible) to catch a 6 o'clock bus headed to the a...