To get to Laos our bus journey was just ovr 26 hours, managed to go most of it without smelly BO man but because there were too many people in the bus and people were sitting in the aisle and sleeping in the aisle i got stuck with him for a bit, he smelled disgusting. Yes, that's disgusting, and yes he thought it was ok to lean on me. I was repulsed to say the least. I also had some old woman resting her foot on my arm rest, she was not clean. so 26 hours in a ho...

firstly... that' a pic of Hanoi, the blog thing doesn't have a pic of Sapa and i've not put mine on the PC yet... Sapa... ok the 8 hour overnight train journey was 10 hours, and we went cattle class haha! 6 of us in a bunker with a slab of metal and a cushion no thicker than an inch, quite funny to be honest. wasn't entirely sure about staying with 4 perfect strangers, only because one said he coulodn't speak english after trying to have a convo with me, th...

another day down (nearly) and another good'un!! this moring we had a bit of a lay in before getting up and going around Ha Noi. We started off by going to the Ngoc Con Temple, we've done a lot of temples now so it was pretty much what i was expecting, very nice to see though and had it's own personal qualities so not too samey! after this we decided we'd go a bit further away to the Ho Chi Minh Museum. we were just checking out how much for a pedalo when we were ...

ok the last blog was a little brief and didn't give much idea of the goings on, as i'm jetlagged and have been keeping a bit of a diary since i got here i thought i'd type it up for you guys to read - also trying to upload pics after so fingers crossed that'll work, there'll be more pics on reyn's fb too - thy're not all attrative, but we're travellers now haha! as written on 02-04-09 starting from the beginning on 01-04-09 OK, the trip has not necessarily got ...

hi all, hope you're all well :) we're on our second proper day in hong kong and just htought we'd give you a quick update... the first night was a bit of a culture shock, thought busy city, might be comparqable to london, it is, except people here are far more pushy, everyone wants you to stay in their hostel and can't take no very easily, we soon got past this though. had a bit of a whoopsy and lost my phone so anybody that was hoping for a text... don't! haha...