Last stop....and we are fed up with writing blogs...just as you are with reading them! Just to recap before moving on to Japan. We spent a few days in an old fashioned Chinese city. That had survived the communist Cultural Revolution. It really felt like going back in time a few hundred years. It looked like a movie set. Traditional grey buildings, red lanterns and lacquered doors and no cars. Although this town was beautiful, we still awoke every morning to t...

China, where the sky is white! Yeah it's true we have been here a week and we have it confirmed every day, the sky is white/light grey. A mix of pollution, dust, cigarette smoke...and other things we don't care to think about.We have very mixed feelings about China. No doubt that China has some of the world's most stunning nature, most amazing cultural sights and history. But first we have to tell you about the day to day living for a backpacker...We are struggli...

After our fourth and final visit to Bangkok airport we only had a short hop to Hong Kong. We were increasingly concerend that this would prove to be as close to China as we would get after Beijing changing Visa requirements within the last month. However, cold hard cash is always the sweetener, so after paying our Hostel through the nose, we had our China visas within 48hours. Relieved, we set about trying to find somewhere to watch Sweden play Greece in Euro 2...

We left Hoh Chi Minh City (Saigon) by bus and 8 long hours later we arrived in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Ended up staying in a room that reminded me of a concret bunker, bars for the windows and a big padlock on the metal door. Not a great start. Cambodia is a very poor country, a lot of corruption and with a very grim history. 35% of the population is under 14 years old and 96% are under 64. The average age is 20!!!! Phnom Penh was very smelly in places and with ...

Vietnam!! The single craziest place we have visited in the last 9 months, in fact we have ever visited. We flew in to Hanoi with AirAsia, (our favorite low cost airline) again and within minutes we came to appreciate a whole new meaning to traffic congestion. I know that Ken Livingston is out of a job, well maybe he can try and have a go in Hanoi. There are road rules, it's simply that you give way to anything bigger than you are...simply put Trucks don't stop fo...