Time for the fourth instalment of my travels.... After a beautiful 26 hour bus ride and the most inefficient border control I have ever seen, I made it to Hanoi, Vietnam! I checked myself into an awesome hostel and had a cheeky 16 hour hibernation as tubing and buses rendered me worse than useless and speech was actually proving a struggle! Once fully recovered, I ventured out and I sampled the real Vietnam, well Hanoi anyway....calling it a culture shock is a ...

I felt it was time for another little slice of my adventures, I hope you enjoy it and are not bored of them yet! My last blog ended with me on route to Luang Probang and I'm pleased to say we made it. Our stay involved some beautiful waterfalls, complete with rope swings, some seriously competitive bowling and a bar where volleyball was the post drinking activity of choice and scooters where the preferred wall decorations...random to say the least, so I felt I f...

Hello all! I thought it was about time I shared my latest bout of shenanigans, apologies to relatives who have warned of the dangers of alcohol but it will be a running theme throughout this blog. I'm afraid it could not be helped... After the elephant trek we went out with Fiona and Kat, the two other girls on our trek. We had some food and hit the rooftop bar where we met some seriously entertaining people, the evening included 9 in a TukTuk (no mean feet), m...

Hello to all! Apologies for the delay in the official blog christening, this is due to the lack of reliable Internet in my last hostel. I am writing to you from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, which does of course mean I made my first flight! This however proved to be more challenging than first imagined, taking aside the complete stand still on the m1 there was also the breaking news about Osama. This led to severe flight warnings from India, not ideal at the...