Well i have now left Hanoi but thought i had better fill you in on my culinary experiences. Thanks to Joanna Edghill - thanks honey!!! - i ended up getting quite drunk on snake wine, which is quite disgusting, and that old favourite, snake blood and snake bile...with vodka. Seriously i am not joking, we were taken outby jos workmate Thang, who is lovely, to a restaurant a bit out of the centre. As we drive in there is a big picture of a snake on the wall but i...

Well greetings from Hanoi everyone!!! Since Hue we have been busy with not much time for sitting at the internet, we first went to Nimh Binh which is like Halong Bay but with the rocks and islands rising up from lakes in the rice fields, was absolutely beautiful and so peaceful...well on the way in it was, on the way out there were 3ooo japanese tourists on their way in so not so peaceful! We hired some motorbikes to get to them, not sure the guy was convinced...

Well just arrived in Hue so not much to say about it yet, thought i would fill you in on what we have been up to since Ho Chi Minh though. Travelling north from Ho Chi Minh we had a 12 hour bus journey to Nha Trang, a coastal town. The overnight buses are not the most comfortable mode of transport and unfortunately this time i ended up on the back seat which does not go back, needless to say i got hardly any sleep that night, although the time passed quicker th...

After having loved Cambodia so much i has mixed feelings about moving on to Vietnam, you can tell almost as soon as you cross the border that it is much more modern and arriving into Saigon that is definitely the case. Having arrived though the people are so friendly and the city so vibrant that you can't really fail to fall for it's charm. We are staying in the heart of district 1, the centre of this huge city and right in the middle of back packer lan...