Hi everyone. Trying to catch up a bit with my blog. I've become a bit lazy with it as many of you have noticed. Our first stop in the Thai Islands was Phucket. We only really came here as it had an airport and we were flying from Chiang Mai. The flight was an absolute dream. 2 hours traveling as aposed to 24 hours. We arrived pretty late at our hostel and so went straight to bed. The next morning we got up and asked how we could get a nice beach. We'd been tol...

Hi everyone. It seems like absolutely ages since I was in Chiang Mai but I'm going to do my best to remember what we did here. I always start with the journey and this blog is no exception! We had an overnight bus from Luang Prabang which took about 14 hours. This was to the Thai Laos boarder. Here we were told that we'd missed our mini bus and that we'd have to wait 7 hours for the next one. We were pretty annoyed but have become used to incidents like this. ...

Welcome along to the next edition of my blog everyone. We're about to leave Loas for Chiang Mai tonight, after only a week spent here. I really wish we'd planned to stay longer as it's such an amazing country and there's so much more we could do here. Unfortunately we have a flight from Chiang Mai to catch. Our first taste of Laos was in the captial city Vientiane. It was nothing like a city however. It felt more like the size of Chorley - much nicer though I'm ...

Hello again. I'm trying to update this thing a bit more regularly as the last blog was a bit of a marathon! We're currently in Vientianne (capital city of Laos). We arrived here yesterday at 3.30pm (on time!!!) after a 22 hour bus ride, but more about that later. So our last couple of days in Vietnam were spent at Halong Bay. We had booked ourselves onto a 3 day boat trip but due to bad weather, no boats were allowed into the bay, so our trip became a 2 day tri...

Hi everyone. It's been so long since I've updated this blog, we've traveled the whole length of Vietnam and are now in our final destination - Hanoi. We were meant to be on a three day trip to Halong Bay today but there's a category 1 cyclone which had other ideas. No boats are going out to the bay at all. We were so disappointed because Hanoi isn't the most interesting of places to be stuck in really. I'd describe it as the poor relation of Saigon really. Plus ...