so...that night I was flying to Saigon, also called Ho Chi Minh City after the great Uncle Ho himself. Anyway, had an absolute touch, and got bumped up to business class, free food and drink, and hot face-towels all the way through the flight- thats when you know your travelling in style, hot face towels. Just a shame that the flight was only an hour and a half, I couldve happily stayed there all night! Had one of the busiest and best days so far yesterday. We s...

so... The overnight train to Hue wasnt too bad, apart from the fact that everywhere was closed because it was the equivalent of new years day, so dinner that night was ritz crackers and a third world version of Laughing Cow cheese corners. I wasnt laughing. lol. Not ideal, but I didnt quite starve to death. So, that day we took a trip to the Imperial Palace In Hue (pronounced whhheeeeyyyy), which was built by the Vietnamese Royal family before they abdicate...

A parody Lets say for example, that me, all the watford boys and all the lads from uni decided to spend New Years together in Scotland 600 miles away. What we would need is a coach. But to justify the cost of the coach, we would have to fill it. so what we would do (as evidently the Vietnamese do), is fill the other half of the bus with stupid looking Tourists who will pay us good money to spend 26 hours travelling from the bottom end of Cornwall, to the top of ...

i nearly died yesterday, but I'll come to that in a minute because first of all, the day before, being Friday, I had one of the best days of my entire life! We started with a 3 hour drive from Vietiane to Vang Vieng, the birthplace of the legendary river tubing pubcrawl. The group I was with however, decided they wanted to go kayaking, so i left them to it. I was given a rubber ring, and a dry bag for my things, and set off for a relaxing float down the river......

The day after the incident with the village and the lights and the darkness, we headed down the river again. In all we were on the boat for about 7 hours although this time it was far rainier and overcast and we stopped only once to visit the cave of a thousand Buddahs. In all honesty, I'm getting a bit Buddah'd out...ive seen enough of him at this stage to the point where I'm starting to think he only became "the enlightened one" because everywhere he ...