Although we are shortstaffed a few Canucks on our second world tour, Team Bollocks is again running strong. Bonnie and Sean showed up in Hanoi a few days ago and we spent the last few nights reintroducing our livers to one another through a couple thousand 50 cent beers. Staying in Hanoi was an awesome way to kick start my travelling adventure. ...

Here now!! Arrived this morning after a 13 hour over night bus trip. Was a short but sweet visit...all of 32 hours! On our first day we stumbled across a graffiti written, tacky looking little cafe/bookshop/tour company called Cafe On Thu Wheels! Having just arrived and being starving as hell we stopped here for a bite. Food was incredibly cheap...

It's funny how your perspective of long distance travel changes. Those who hadn't been to China were complaining bitterly at the 12 hour, overnight journey. Those of us that had were wondering why they were complaining about such a short trip. The historic city of Hue was from 1744 until 1945 the capital of Vietnam, under the Nguyen dynasty. For...

Hue e' una delle citta piu' grandi del Vietnam centrale, nonostante sia solamente un grande paese. Questo e' un posto di interesse sia per i resti della storia vietamita antica, ma soprattutto perche' fu uno dei punti focali degli eventi storici dell'ultimo secolo. Il cuore di Hue e' una cittadella circondata da mura, resti perfettamente preserv...

Yes, I live with a rodent. I'm not sure if it's a small rat or a large mouse....I think mentally I will be going with the large mouse though. It comes out mainly at night and Ki the dog that wants to eat me, goes mouse hunting. Last night I was home alone as I was sick yesterday and it decided to appear. After screaming and running next door, th...

The DMZ Tour and the Long Bus Ride - Hue, Vietnam Written by Meg We were a bit tired when we arrived here so we hopped on a cyclo. These are just like little seats that have bikes behind them. We felt a bit lazy, because we sped by everyone else that was on our bus. BUT......we do have a lot of stuff now. Matt really wanted to come to Hue to go ...

We got the train from Hanoi to Hue - then found out virtually everyone else flew, but the train was fine bar the Vietnamese guy running a card school from the lower bunk As soon as we got into Hue it seemed hard work, cyclo drivers, moto drivers and hotel touts pursuing you down the street more than anywhere else we have been, then it seemed to ...

After a hard night of partying we arrived, our bus left at 7:30 in the morning, and the previous night had been goodbye drinks with Eric, Mark, Yasmine and Vivian. It had been a big one, and we boarded the bus that day with no more than 1 hour sleep....We arrived at about 12:30 after a horrific bus trip, made even worse by the fact that Lauren r...

The last few days have been very hectic and pretty overwhelming generally. On Thursday, Lou went to Xuan Phu and did a 'make a town using boxes' class with them. She's been surprised that the children at Xuan Phu are actually less creative than those at HoA because for all the classes they do, everything is very structured and rigid and they lik...

Hi Everyone, there will be a little catch up on the last few places Danny and I have been to so a few separate entries at once (just have a look at a few pictures if you get bored!). So we left Hoi An having successfully managed not to get any clothes made unlike every other tourist we met and arrived at Hue. The temperature has decreased the fu...