Well Vietnam has been fantastic; beautiful countryside, fascinating culture and history and really friendly people. The journey to the Cambodian border has taken me just about everywhere starting in Hanoi. Believe it or not here's a heavily edited version of what I've been up to: HANOI Took a while to get used to. Such a buzzing city which is never quiet. It has a population over 4 million and over 2 million own a motorbike. There are virtually no cars and...

The crossing into Cambodia is worthy of a mention in itself! We left Chau Doc early on a speedboat and headed for the border. On arrival we all got off and headed for the screening area only to find that the x-ray machine wasn't working so we 'pretended' to put our bags down and wandered back to the boat. Already the '1 dollar' kids had appeared from nowhere. Cambodia is full of them. They put on this voice, look up at you with puppy eyes and say 'wunnnn doooooll...

So Vietnam is hot. Not in a Paris Hilton 'that's hot' kinda way but it's really really hot. Hot and mental. As with any big city, Hanoi is intimidating but the buildings are amazing. There is a huge French Colonial influence in the architecture. A really weird, East meets West mix. So far been to the prison, the lake -slap bang in the middle of the city and wandered around the old quater. I think I'll like it here. Not much else to report but within a week I'm su...

So we arrived at Bangkok and within 20 minutes I had my bearings, had wandered down the street and was ready to leave. I really don't like Bangkok. It is fine for shopping, but the budget wasn't stretching to more than 2 pairs of fishermen's trousers that I had my eye on 4 years ago, so with those bought it was time to start planning an escape route for when our group finished. We went for a lovely dinner that night and for the first time in a while h...