Today we had a short liein, then after breakfast walked over to the war museum. Here we hoped to piece together a bit better the history of Vietnam with regard to why the Americans were carpet bombing the North the whole time, what's the difference between the Viet Cong and Viet Minh and why did the French and Japanese keep popping back into the scene. The front of the museum displayed the American weaponry and aircraft, with little boards detailing their capabi...

Today we got up early, I had a mashed banana sandwich for breakfast and we headed down to see Kim's friend's friend's brother's friend to catch the bus to the Cu Chi tunnels. These are a huge network of tiiiiny tunnels arranged in 3 levels under the ground in the Cu Chi area of Saigon in the south towards the cambodian border. They were used by the Viet Viet Cong guerrillas as hiding spots, places to leap out and shout surprise, and as communication and supply ro...

Soooo from the beginning... We met in Heathrow at half 10 ish and faffed about with the checkin. First with the self-checkin machines which took forever and half of them didn't work and then they sat us miles apart from each other and we had to queue up anyway. Then with the super-grumpy checkin clerk who was not having a very good time talking to us, but did checkin our bags, but did also sit us all miles apart. The guy behind us was checking in box after box of...