We are in the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam. We took an overnight bus for the journey from Hoi An, and arrived in town at about 6.30am Tuesday. We found a reasonable guesthouse room, and then went back to sleep! Later on we forced ourselves out of bed, and as a treat Katie had sausage and mash and I had chicken curry and chips, both English style! So, stomachs suitably weighed down, we headed for the beach. It's very nice, 6km long crescent, and we passe...

We are in a wonderful little town in central Vietnam called Hoi An. It's an ancient place, with many of the buildings well over 200 years old. We are staying in the newer part of town, but a five minute walk brings us into the old town; narrow streets crammed with gorgeous old buildings, mostly yellow and crumbling but in a looked after fashion. The streets are packed with Vietnamese, foreign tourists and an army of touts for the hundrds of tailor shops. We a...

We got to the South bus station in Luang Prabang at half 7 to find a VIP bus to Vientiane leaving at 8am. Perfect. It wasn't the best bus journey to say the least. We had seats in the bottom, which wasn't too bad but you couldn't stand up straight, so you literally had to crawl in and out every time we stopped. Richards seat was broken and kept flying backwards. Behind him a Lao woman was making the most disgusting noises and it turned out she was bei...

We’re now in one of the few remaining communist countries in the world, the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos. I’m fascinated by this, to see how life is for people in a communist country, especially as I think that in a few years there may be none left. I think it’ll be interesting even just reading the newspapers, as they’re state controlled. We’ll also get the chance to see another communist state in a week or two when we...

Chiang Mai is such a nice city. We have experienced so much during our stay here. A trak in the northern mountains, visiting hilltribes, thai cooking course, seeing pandas, Thai boxing, and a thai massage. The journey up was exhausting. We caught a bus at 3pm from Ao Nang to Bangkok. Got into Bangkok at 5.30 the next morning, wasn't too bad as we were talking to these 3 girls from Manchester who had just spent 6 weeks in Australia so we were getting all the...