hello from the thousand islands of halong bay! well im back in hanoi now, but lets pretend. after booking the 3 day trip with chums Gabriel (baguette land) and Craig (flamin galah koala land), we boarded the minibus full of some vietnamese richies, few japanese, few scandinavians, some israelis, more french and more aussies. we drove to halong city, about 3 hours (Never Eat Shredded Wheat) East of hanoi city. the drive there was spectacular enough, with huge lime...

random picture of my stud cat Tyson. hes a G ok, so hada bit of stress after the last postcard from the DMZ day, left my bloody trainers on the bus, but after a few hours of drawing pictures to explain mon error, i finally got them sent back to me via the bus that was coming to pick me up. crisis diverted. mataus happy status resumed. hada fairly awful journey as usual, 14 hours cramped up with locals chatting their whiney language the whole way, but used ...

hello from the DEMILITARIZED ZONE!!! area that faced much of the American War, the whole area is comletely full of huge craters, old tanks, shells, old american air bases, and of course you cant see it all at first glance, you have to dip deeper, literally, going underground, well over a thousand meters of underground tunnels, with around 16/17 openings, going down to depts on 23 meters. thats deep. down there there are larger openings where families lives, bomb ...

hey all, in hoi an now, just had another killer night journey and will put pics on soon, sat next to about 10 mad vietnamese business men wil far too much energy so was cramped in the corner singer songs with them, yet more love song 80's hits, and when i wanted to sleep they still carried on with their irritating whining language at the tops of their voices. but apart from that it was ok, and took a valium off someone and was knocked out for a while happy days. ...

hi all, been in Na Trang on the east coast on 'nam for the last 3 days. had a superb time, great people, crazy place, so many jokes and good times and an awesome booze cruise around the neighbouring islands. still feelnig the effects. had a big night every night, and with beers at around 50US cents a bottle its rude not to.. travelled here with the aussie guy Hugh who i met in saigon. and met some cool people on the beach and just been hanging around chilling out...