07/08/13 Today's biggest achievement was actually leaving the villa. It would have been so easy not to. I have no idea where the time between 8:30 to 13:00 went! I got up and had breakfast, chatting to Nana & Ron, helped Ron with his laptop, then suddenly it was 13:00 and Tony was arriving shortly. I met the man who's kind enough to give me days of luxury on my backpacking trip, and he couldn't be nicer. Seriously kind, generous and really easy to talk to, i...

01/08/13 It's 13:31, I'm in Hanoi airport, my flight leaves at 13:35 and I'm on the wrong side of the airport. I'm still landside. I don't really feel like writing right now, following my failure as a Borland. Okay, now I have everything under control, I can write about the only time I have been late for a flight, nay, late for anything important in my entire life. I'm assuming if you're reading this, you know me somewhat and you know that I'm not a late person...

26/07/13 I'm in Saigon! We arrived 2.5 hours later than expected and I'm couchsurfing with a couple of Vietnamese guys who own a café. This café is called 'English Rain' and is based on people coming to the café to speak and learn English. Here, I am treated like a minor celebrity. Let's start with when I arrived... An picked me up at the bus stop, luckily he wasn't waiting for me the whole time, but when he arrived I knew instantly, this guy is a laugh. Try...

The title of this blog "One man, One rotten bit of luck - Part II" is echoing from a blog 1 year ago "One man, One rotten bit of luck". This week last year I experienced a spell of bad luck, something about a car, and injuring myself a lot in this exact week. Well, the same luck repeated itself this year... 20/07/13 We should have stayed in Hoi An. We rode the night bus to Nha Trang. Arriving at 6am, we opted for the Hoi An approach and dipped into a café wh...

15/07/13 Hanoi! Stop being so nice! I uploaded the last blog in the bar, all I needed to do was leave the bar, walk to the travel agent and get on the bus. But no, you had to go and give me a free shot because I was leaving 30 minutes before happy hour?! I don't even understand, but thanks for the shot, it made my walk happy and tasty! 16/07/13 The night bus was the best night bus I've had, I don't mean to jinx it, but Vietnam is turning out alright! I had b...