16 Aug 2014 Ah Bonjour! Yesterday left Holland for a journey to Normandy in France. Before leaving I had contacted Lien, a girl I wrote about 12 months ago when I found her with her leg bandaged up in the hostel in Hanoi where I was staying. Lien had been in a scooter accident and had severe lacerations on her leg including an infected open wound on her foot. The day I met her I had been inside a Vietnamese hospital and had quickly come to the conclusion tha...

Day 113 10 Aug 2013 Caen-Normandy Going to bed at 2 Am and waking at 6.15 Am I have done before but it is getting harder. With pain I managed to get up this morning. 45 minutes… and we were on our way. A few hours later we passed the first cemeteries of the Flanders fields where, amongst the millions of others, many Australians have lost their lives in the first world war. Perhaps on the way back we can give it some more time. France came in sight. D...