Hello Hanoi! Bangkok airport was a pleasant surprise, exceeding all our expectations! We found ourselves eating a thai green curry for breakfast – all meal conventions have gone out the window! The flight to Hanoi was nice and straightforward, the most entertaining part was waiting for our luggage, and being amazed at the selection of items people had checked in....the baggage claim conveyer belt resembled a wholesaler’s stock take! Our 2 backpacks looked ...

Tuk tuks ahoy! Sad to leave Singapore, as we have come to feel very at home, we had a fairly non-eventful flight out to Bangkok ( except for commotion at Changi airport caused by a lady being deported, but refusing to board the plane – her picnic was definitely a sandwich short....) Singapore continued to impress us up until the very last moment – this time it was their “mobile post office service” that worked wonders. This little postman-pat style van ...

To the East and beyond... After a brief stop in Cairns – it felt extremely strange to be back in the place we had started our east coast Australia adventure, knowing how much ground we had covered since our last visit! We were pleased that our return visit meant we could visit the “Best Falafels in Australia” cafe again, or rather its official name “The Holy Land”. After a scrumptious dinner and walk along the esplanade, for old times sake, it was ear...

To the East and beyond... After a brief stop in Cairns – it felt extremely strange to be back in the place we had started our east coast Australia adventure, knowing how much ground we had covered since our last visit! We were pleased that our return visit meant we could visit the “Best Falafels in Australia” cafe again, or rather its official name “The Holy Land”. After a scrumptious dinner and walk along the esplanade, for old times sake, it was ear...

First day of 2010 After all the excitement of the previous day we were pretty knackered and decided to just relax and take it easy for the rest of new year’s day. The only plans we had were to head to the ‘Cinema by Moonlight” at Centennial Park with Olly and Laura to watch The Time Travellers Wife. A first for all of us, it was quite a novelty to be sprawled out in the park, under the stars to watch a film, made even more surreal by the bats that randomly...