Sabaidee from Laos!Our second country already - how time flies when you are having fun! Last week, before leaving Vietnam, we spent 3 days cruising Halong Bay in the north-west, on a Chinese junk boat - by far the three coldest days of our lives!Having not really anticipated 'cold' much in Asia, we had not really packed for such eventualities.Everyone in the south warned us it would be "cooler" in the north but a drop from 32 degrees to 6 degrees rea...

Chuc mung nam moi people!Happy new year!We are writing from Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, on new year's eve - Chinese/vietnamese new year ('tet') that is!We are entering the year of the dragon so we are told it should be a strong and prosperous year for us all - fingers crossed!It has been so exciting watching the people of Hanoi prepare for this evening, cleaning their homes manically, decorating literally everything with flowers and josticks and buying peach blosso...

So, what to tell you?Perhaps about the driver who didn't stop belching for an entire 4 hour car journey, being forced to eat Sainsburys basic chocolate because we had been starved of any chocolate for a whole fortnight, or the little student waiter who, whilst chatting Nat up, asked Wattsy if he was her Dad?!Perhaps not! Once we left Ho Chi Minh on 5th, we headed to Mui Ne on the south coast of Vietnam for a bit of sunshine and some beaches.It was really warm ...

Xin chao from Vietnam! What a start - we have barely been here a week and are already shattered! We started in Ho Chi Minh, arriving the day before New Year's Eve so we set about doing a bit of exploring before the big event! We already knew the city was likely to be a bit chaotic NYE, as we had seen some crazy videos on youtube, but we really had no idea! Come 10pm we tried heading out to the massive street party that was being held about a 10 minute walk fr...