Xin Chao from Vietnam (pronounced Sin Chow!) This is part one of two Vietnam blogs, done a lot! We are coming to the end of our time here and have had a wonderful month travelling down this amazing country. After 5 months travelling through mainly Western countries we arrived in Hanoi, expecting things to be pretty different! And they were... Drove into Hanoi from the airport, paddy fields on either side of the road. There were mopeds weaving all over the place,...

G'day again! Well Phil survived his skydive over Broome and absolutely loved it, got a good DVD of it which he wil be showing off when he gets home! That evening we flew down to Perth to stay with family friends. We visited them 5 years ago and they kndly put us up again. Had 5 days here and didn't do a lot. It was nice to be staying in a lovely home and chilling out. We did manage to have a bbq on the first evening but then the weather turned a bit cooler, no...

G'day from Down Under!! Back in Australia and loving it. We arrived into Melbourne from Christchurch and had to wait in the airport for a couple of hours for our internal flight to Darwin, of course we spent it in the bar! When we arrived the tropical heat of the Top End hit us, it was 36 degrees average every day, bit of a change to the weather in NZ! Had one day to see Darwin then went on our first camping safari....... It was a great tour travelling round i...

Kia Ora from New Zealand! We have had a brilliant 3 weeks back visiting this country, seeing some new places and some we already know. It's almost 5 years since we last visited. We flew into Auckland from Fiji and what a drop in temperature, went from 30 degrees+ to 18! had to get our jumpers out. It has since warmed up a little though as it is springtime here and summer is just round the corner. We hired a car to explore the far north above Auckland. We had he...

Well hello everyone after so long! Since we last wrote from Seattle we have done so much and not had chance to do a blog! Therefore we will try to condense all our news into this one! From Seattle we went to Portland, Oregon. Spent a few days here but didn't do a lot. It's the beer capital of the USA though so we sampled a few at the many brewpubs they have there, Dad you would've loved it! We also did a day trip to visit Mt St Helens Volcano which is back over ...