Ne-How! Hope everyone is well. We have just spent 10 days in China. After all the visa problems and all the horror stories of spitting, rats on transport, language problems and food problems, we were pretty apprehensive. However, we had a fantastic time and would loved to have had more time. We arrived in Beijing feeling pretty nervous, and this wasn't helped when the hostel hadn't come to pick us up. So we had to pay quite a bit for a lift into the city centr...

Hello again!Hope everyone is well? We've just spent 2 weeks in Vietnam, so here's a catch up... We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City after another comfortable flight from Bangkok, and we got picked up by a non-English speaking bloke, although with a nice car! We were totally overwhelmed by the number of motorbikes on the road, there were literally thousands! They came from every direction and there did not seem to be any laws on the road! Traffic lights were being ign...

Hello again Hope everyone is well. We've finally been able to add some pics so frantically trying to catch up!! Last time we left you we were just leaving Ko Samui... We had a decent flight into Bangkok, taking only 1.5 hours rather than the 12 hours scheduled for the overnight train. We got the shuttle bus from the airport to our hostel in Bangkok, Lub D, which was in the business district away from the main tourist attractions but still a very busy and fun p...

Hello again! Still no pictures! Sorry for leaving you on a knife edge last time! Here's what happened... We woke to our alarm at 4am in the 'beautiful' Penang hoping for the breakfast that we had been promised, but it never came! Little did we know that this was a sign of how the rest of the day was going to turn out. Unfortunately the bus we'd organised did turn up! We knew the journey was going to be approx 12 hours, and had mentally prepared ourselves for thi...

Hello again, Hope everyone is well? We are still having problems uploading our photos onto here, but we have managed to get some onto facebook for those of you that have it. If you don't we'll try harder! Let the catch up continue... We left 'Shoppers Paradise' Singapore and headed North to Malaysia. We had a comfortable bus journey and a very easy border crossing (where we find out that we could cross with a sword but not chewing gum!). The only downside o...