As I last left off I had my first day in Australia with pouring rain. Oh dear!!! So I did what any girl would and went shopping! Bought some jeans as it became clear Oz was not going to be the sunbathing pursuit I had imagined and went to the doctors who said I could take my sling off my arm!! Yay!!

So... I have been unable to write for a while... small technicalities like broken arm and trying to keep such injuries secret from the mother... which lasted all of 2 days... The train journey in Vietnam was hilarious... long, but entertaining. I shared a cabin with this young Vietnamese student, who was excited to talk to me because he'd never met an English person before... and then there was this crazy Vietnamese woman who was so sweet. She kept offering me f...