First off I need to correct an error on the previous blog. Apparently Amanda only paid 15 pounds for her skirts, not 20 pounds as previously stated. This, it seems, makes the skirts a bargain as opposed to merely reasonable! We had a lovely few days in Hoi An before we left with tailor made suit and shirt in hand and got the bus to Hue, a four hour gauntlet of terrible driving and close shaves! Hue is the sight of the famous Tet Offensive during the Vietnam W...

Hi Since our last blog we've done quite a lot! We took a trip to the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam for a couple of days. I started with a visit to the floating markets on the river where people sell everything you can imagine. They then took us to a little village where they make all kinds of sweets from coconut. We watched them making sweets and something that looked like coconut rice cakes before they sat us down to a cup of tea and a glass of snake win...

Hi All We'll come back to Christmas & New Year in Australia another time - just to say they were awesome! We've just had our first day in Vietnam and we had to tell you about it! We arrived off the plane last night and got in a cab to our hotel. Basically the traffic in Ho Chi Minh City never stops so everyone continues with their journey several inches apart! The road is covered with cars, mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians with no obvious lanes to follow...