We got out of Bangkok early the next morning, it felt like a ghost town, the streets were deserted which is definitely a first for the streets of Bangkok. We sat outside our hotel wondering if our mini bus would turn up (as you do every time you get a bus/taxi/train in Asia) A film crew started filming us and asking questions about our experience of the riots and our departure of Bangkok but sadly the minibus turned up and the crew filmed our dramatic departure...

Hello again!! Sorry its about 6 months late... and a long one!!! So the day of Tom and Carole's (T&C) arrival, me and Chloe had found a better hotel, and for the same price and so got up and moved over in the morning. It was still raining so we couldn't do too much and so sat in a cafe grabbed a late breakfast (infact i had my first full fry up since we've been away) and drunk a few coffees. The rain subsided early afternoon and so we took a walk around and...

So we were up early and grabbed our bus down to Saigon, a rather hot and uncomfortable journey but otherwise painless! We arrived and tracked down a cheap hotel for our stay and managed to reconvene with Tash and Andy again, who had come down a few days prior!! We spent a few hours trying to track down a bar with live music which was recommended in the good old lonely planet, but after walking with no joy we eventually gave up and just went to the nearest bar for...

Aye Aye! Sorry again for the delay on these, about 6 weeks behind now but will aim to catch up now we have chloes laptop here!!Right so we got our bus down from Hoi An to Nha Trang all fine, was another sleeper bus and we both slept relatively well! We arrived at 5.30am, and as we came along the beach to the bus stop we were amazed by the number of people out on the beach jogging, doing tai chi and other forms of aerobics, was literally thousands of them, but was...

Hello there!! Hope you're ready for the next installment, been a while again, this time its been purely down to lazyness that i havnt updated before, but ive got a few hours to waste before our bus leaves tonight so i'll give you all a lil update!! Carrying on from our last blog, i was a bit premature in believing i was on the mend, turned out i was far from it and later that day i was back to rejecting anything which touched my lips, and anything that did get...