Hi Everybody! So, here's the deal,  We were writing this totally great entry and the connection died! It was tragic a whole hours worth of writing down the drain. Anyways, I finished my beer and Simon ordered another and we think we are ready to give it another go. God willing.    We left off in Chiang Mai...

Well, just to let you all know that I made it safely to Hanoi - very cheap flight so I was a little worried about whether it would be some kind of tin bucket, but thankfully it was actually a really nice flight (I've had much worse flights from London to Glasgow!). First night here I went for a walk around the town and managed to find myself out...

We had breakfast at this lovely Scandanvian Bakery and then headed down to the morning market whilst it was in its full glory. Then we headed to a cafe to chill and realx whilst we all wait for our respective times to move on. This cafe had some kids games next to us and Joanne decide to have a go and then everyone wanted to have a go! Late afte...

Never - under any circumstances - have a massage in Vietnam. It is a killer. After being spoiled by our Thai "mum" for a week, my sister and I decided to have a massage in vietnam - what a mistake! These girls were trained in the 60's on American soldiers and they were trained to torture, mangle and kill their customers.... In a way, they copy t...

greetings and salutations. im in sunny hanoi. and its hot..in fact "its damn hot! its so damn hot, i saw two little guys, their orange robes burst into flames." had to be done, im sorry..its out of the way now and it wont happen again. spent the weekend in seoul with donald, which was cool. seoul itself was strange in its normality. to be in a c...

Does madness ever stop in this city ? We arrived back in Hanoi after 8 hours on the train and jumped in a taxi back to our hotel. As we were passing the lake at 5.30 am we were watching all the people doing Tai Chi and when I say all I mean all (driver included) cos next thing we know there's a woman and child on our bonnet !!!! We weren't going...

Glistening in bright blue lights in Hanoi's Old Quarter, I see three glorious letters - ATM, a nice sight after Laos, a country without a single ATM, and think to myself, "Good morning, Vietnam." I type in my PIN and it gives me an option for 500,000, 1,000,000, or 2,000,000. The currency here is the dong, at an exchange rate of 15,000 to $1. It...