So Sue and Brian arrived and we welcomed them with a couple of Changs! Followingf morning we headed straight to Phi Phi island. We were staying at the holiday Inn resort on the north of the main island and it was absolutely stunning. After a couple of days getting used to the heat we took a private long tail boat down to Phi Phi Lay where first stop to avoid the crowds was Maya bay. This is where the film 'the beach' was made and is part of a Thai national park. ...

Welcome back! Thought wed update this for the first time since we got to Asia as we are waiting to catch a night bus from Saigon to Nah Trang in a couple of hours. We arrived in Singapore after the biggest rain storm either of us had ever seen at Darwin airport, to some very welcome hot weather. SIngapore is a fantastic place, giving a taste of south east asia mixed into a very modern and western city. The people were incredibly friendly and helpful and even th...

Sorry for the delay in setting up the blog and the lack of contact, we haven’t forgotten about you all at home! We discovered that communicating from China was more limiting than we both first realised, as we found it was totally impossible to read the instructions on the screens in the internet cafes, as everything was in chinese and nobody there could understand us! And in fiji we were lucky if we had our own room and weren’t sharing our room with a bird n...