2014-03-10 Tąm Bįêt (Tam Be-Yet) Ending my last blog with the passport episode on Saigon airport meant that I was beginning my journey homewards again. I usually mention the name Saigon as this a name is known by most people outside Vietnam. Since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in the mid 70's the city was re named Ho Chi Min City. My blog’s interface only recognises this name. People refer to the city by both names. Leaving V...

10 Feb 2014 Why write another blog To blog or not to blog is an issue which never came up 20 years ago. It used to be a notebook on which pages the daily adventures (if you could call it that) were penned down and recorded; something which I almost never failed to do. Two or three lines a day would be enough the jog the memory at a later date and bring it all back from the grey matter to the 3D movie theatre behind eye balls. Last year I blogged daily which at ...

"Houston, we have a problem", said the commander of the Apollo13 Space mission which resulted in a return back to earth. Well, today we decided a similar action. Jerome's sunburn is very severe and is not enjoying either sitting, laying down or walking for that matter. After breakfast in jail we decided to see how things would progress and headed for the Bundaberg Rum distillery to do a tour. Tours are done every hour, on the hour and seeing we arrived at 2 min...