Hi All, As I said in the last blog I spent a bizarre few days in Heng Yang in the Hunan province as part of a PR exercise for Owen College (Where we get our bed and board)! Mr Owen asked me to go to meet another college dude, Daniel (Mr Xian) and work with him in a local primary school where he teaches English a couple of times a week. According to Laurie I'd be treated like a queen (Nice) and wouldn't be left alone for a second (Not so nice!). Anyway, the offic...

Hi all, I have made it safely to China and started teaching this week. I arrived on the overnight train from Vietnam (Leaving everyone drunk in the hostel celebrating St Patricks day after having eaten snake....) and by a stroke of luck shared my cabin on the train with an American girl who spoke fluent Mandarin! She dealt with all the stuff on the train for me which left me to sleep through everything! I arrived in Guilin (The capital of the Guangxi province) ...

Hi all, I'm down to my last few days in Vietnam now and have spent almost 2 weeks here in Hanoi. It's been a fabulous fortnight but mainly because of all the fantastic people I've met, Hanoi itself hasn't been my favourite place in Vietnam! There's loads of museums and temples but I'm bored of them now so only went to Hoa Lo Prison Museum which was pretty interesting. It was nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by the American POWs held there during the war a...

Hi all, We arrived in Nha Trang last night after 3 FANTASTIC days on the back of a motorbike travelling from Dalat in the Central Hghlands here to Nha Trang on the coast. We had a day of pottering around in Dalat which is a really pretty own but with little to do. It's the honeymoon capital of Vietnam so romance was everywhere (YUKYUKYUKYUKYUK...I'm not bitter...) and myself and Kim had to share a double bed as there were no twin rooms to be found! We met these ...

Sing Jow from MY Tho in the Mekong Delta, We had an interesting few days after leaving Saigon and have just about got over the HUMUNGOUS ripping off we suffered at the hands of a horrible little bus man. We thought we'd go cheaply to the Mekong Delta by getting local buses instead of an organised tour, it all started off well, we got on a local bus...with much staring and pointing from the locals (Kind of a theme in Vietnam so far!) got dropped of at the bus sta...