6th August - 15th August 2009 Antigua is such a gorgeous city with some great old buildings and colourful houses. It's also surrounded by three volcanoes so it makes for quite a picturesque and touristy town which we loved. We spent our first afternoon there at a bar talking to some lovely Guatemalans. After realising in Guatemala City that we'd need some Spanish skills to survive the trip and also to give ourselves a bit of a challenge we decided to get our bra...

4th August - 5th August 2009 We were so unsure what to expect of Guatemala so we were pleasantly surprised when a local paid for our bus fare to the city because we didn't have any quetzals (Guatemala's currency). There was also another guy on the bus who gave us a lot of advice and also his phone number in case we ran into any trouble.We were off to a good start indeed. We were loving riding around in our first 'Chicken bus' (Old American school buses that are ...

31st July - 4th August 2009 It was a real shock for us arriving in San Francisco. It seemed so cold after Asia even though it was summer and everything of course seemed so big. We arrived late at the hotel that Nikki's Aunt Jane organized for us but unfortunately she couldn't be there to join us. After a good night's sleep we went for a walk and were grateful for a nice clear footpath to walk down after Vietnam. There weren't even hawkers constantly hassling u...

29th - 31st July 2009 Feeling relaxed and rejuvenated we arrived in Hong Kong and headed on the train to Kowloon where we found some nice accommodation for a reasonable price. That night we walked around the night market and I had a strange dinner of rice and beef but the beef was mostly weird looking skin which I didn't eat. The next day we got up and headed over to the city on the ferry. Our first stop was the financial tower where there is a viewing deck. We...

27th - 29th July 2009 We changed our flights so we could spend some more time with Scottie and Tash in Singapore before heading onto Hong Kong. It was such a good move because we were so worn out by this point that we spent the two days there chilling out in their beautiful apartment. They also took us out to dinner on the river which was so nice. It was great catching up with them at the end of our SE Asia adventure and telling them all about our experiences as...