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 ...

Hey everyone. We're currently in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Im sat in an internet cafe and a mouse or maybe a rat just ran from under my desk! Having lived at furness rd with jerry the mouse for two years though, im not freaking out too much! A lots happened since I last wrote but i'll try to keep it as short as poss. Got the night bus from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville which was a massive blag but it was never going to be any fun! Arrived at 6 am and went straight ...