After another two amazing days of diving and theory lessons! We had an exam to do. We learnt so much in the three days- including doing horrible skills like taking our masks off underwater- and our instructor turning off our air to make us practice sharing air! We both passed our exams and so are qualified Open Water divers- meaning we can dive on our own- if we wanted to!! Obviously this called for a celebration so we went on a pub crawl around Nha Trang with ou...

Our few days in Hue were spend mostly being very lazy! (and playing pool in a bar near our hotel!) We hired a moped, for 5 USD for one day, and went to the local beach. I was going to try driving once we'd got out of the town, but the moped was so old and sketchy, jumping around, we decided it propably wasn't a good idea! The local beach (about 15km from Hue) was deserted, with people from beachside cafes (shacks) running towards us when we got there to make us s...

On 20th Sept (Happy birthday yellow hat!) we crossed the border into Vietnam. The border crossing was called 'Friendship Gate' and was between Pinxiang (China) and Dong Dan (V). We woke up on the sleeper train to Nanning- there were only hard sleeper beds available when we booked- a new experience from soft sleepers- which have four bed compartments. the hard sleeper had triple bunks, in sections of six beds, but with only very thin walls between, and no doors- ...

Following our 25 hour, and slightly boring train journey from Beijing we arrived around lunchtime in Hong Kong. We went straight to hostel- thanks dad for booking! Was more like a box than a room! Very damp, with ensuite that was tiny with shower over the toilet and whole thing a wet room! All seemed fine though- until we tried to sleep! Spend the day exploring- watched the light show- different buildings lighting up and lasers from top of buildings across the r...

Hi all, We've found an internet cafe that actually seems to work!! Tomorrow's our last day in Beijing (leaving by train to Hong Kong at midday) so thought we'd tell you what we'd been up to. We've been staying in a hostel right in the centre of the city- very basic and not much to do there but convenient. On the first whole day we decided to go look at the Olympic Stadiums (weren't sure if paralympics were still on or had even started). When we got there we f...