On the way between Japan and India we stopped off in Hong Kong for three nights.What a place.This was the most crowded city we had been to and after having just been in Tokyo that was saying something.The airport and public transport were all superb however and really new, the manners of the local Cantonese were a little forthright however.Not in Japan now. We made our way round most of the usual tourist things including visiting the Peak for superb views, th...

We arrived at Tokyo airport at 6.30am.As usual Brian was tired and grumpy when we landed as he is too scared of flying to get any sleep on the plane.Admittedly it was the mostturbulent flight we have so far.The plane did drop from the sky at one point as we caught the tail end of a typhoon off the coast of Japan! Thankfully for the frugal Loves, Andy had told us to buy a Japan rail pass before we got to Japan.This saved us a fortune in rail costs over th...

After a smooth flight from Luang Parabang we arrived safely in Chiang Mai and taxied straight to our basic guest house.Chiang Mai was not the nicest place we had been and after Laos seemed busy (clearly this was before we reached India) but Hannah was happy as it had a huge night market and for a real treat we happened to arrive on a Sunday when the entire town turns into one big street bazar. How lucky were we. We wandered round some of the more notable templ...

Ok, as we are currently in India and have visited at least 4 countries since Laos so I am writing one blog to cover it all.We basicaly went to three places over about a week.The entire country was fantastic, so quiet, beautiful scenery, some of the friendliest and laid back locals you can imagine, the best beer to date (and the cheapest; some Wallaces I know would say that these were one and the same) and possibly some of the worst roads of the trip so far.That n...

We safely crossed the Cambodia, Vietnam border and suddenly everything was more developed and although the number of mopeds was the same everyone had a helmet thanks to the recently passed law. The city itself was busy and the traffic like nothing you can imagine.Crossing the road here is truly a skilled art. No pedestrian crossings, in fact little in the way of road rules and just mopeds everywhere.It was just a case of shutting your eyes walking out and hoping ...