Greetings! Arrived in Hanoi last night for the final stop of our Vietnamese Tour after the single most disturbing train journey of both our young lives...! I suppose i could be exaggerating a little, but let's just say that the 13 hour trip didn't get off to the greatest of starts when Rachel took her seat to find a dirty nappy on the floor by her feet... and it went downhill from there! Babies weeing on the floor (albeit trying to hit their potty), old people sn...

Quick hello from Hoi An where there's not much to update you on other than to say that it's raining here and the picture attached to this blog is where we're going to be in less than 2 weeks... not where we are now, sadly!!!! Overnight train journey wasn't too bad, although the a/c was so cold i was concerned that rachel had lost the will to live by about 5am! Her face was a picture as she emerged from under 2 blankets with her kagool hood drawn snuggly around h...

Hello! Had a restful few days in Nha Trang, though once again it failed to be the few days of beach and sun-bathing action we were hoping for! Apart from a couple of hours on monday afternoon, we've barely seen the sun, so we've had to make do with warm, cloudy days wandering around the city and out and about on a moped rather than vegging on sun-loungers. Shame really, because we've really liked Nha Trang's bars and restaurants and apart from the constant remind...

An eventful few days to update on with more twists and turns than a Josephine Cox novel (no piss-taking intended, mum, honest!) Our few days in Sihanoukville ended on a bit of a high after the horror that was Ocheuteal Beach on Chinese new year, as we found a nice spot at Otres Beach and a top restauarant in the Holy Cow for our last supper. So we set off in the minibus for Kampot the next morning with our spirits renewed (admittedly it helped that we'd moved ho...

Hi. Just a quick note to say we made it safely across the border into Vietnam today from Kampot. Really good day.. by far the most "out there" experience of the trip so far... 9-person taxi ride to the border crossing, walking across the border, motobike rides into Ha Tien, then ending up in Rach Gia for the night tonight - great fun! Our travel plans have gone up in the air as we're now following Denis and Carla's lead and we're heading off to Phu Quo...