Well sadly our beach time is now over :( for now at least, though after just three days on the beach we managed to get ourselves some rather enviable 'white bits' which we're hoping we can top up once we hit Oz. As for the last few days, we've mainly spent it continually on the go, and it seems, a little tour crazy. We took a bus from the beach to Saigon where we immediately copped out with another tour to see the infamous Chu Chi tunnels - Dan was yet again in ...

It seems blog duty is never far away and this time it's up to (a slightly smug) Dan to inform you we've arrived at the beach. I'm sure you're delighted to hear it, especially with all the rain and all. Mui Ne is an idyllic place just north of Saigon and we've been blessed with clear blue skies and thankfully non-pebbly beaches. As a result, the factor 50 is out but I'm still not sure it's equipped for an Englishman's skin. There...

Greetings people! Well we've made a nice escape from the city life over the past week or so - and plumped for the easy option of an organised tour to Halong Bay. We've done well to resist the 'sheep tours' so far by doing virtually everything ourselves, but it seems there are some places that you just can't get to without a guide or fellow travellers, which is no bad thing sometimes I guess. So ahoy we went and boarded our very own 'junk' boat and spent a very ...

It was a real wrench to leave Hong Kong but needs must as we make our way through Asia like a dotted line in an Indiana Jones movie. Naturally, it was another pretty sweaty journey for the memory bank folks after a seemingly neverending bus, minibus, sleeper bus, walk, train, very rickety rickshaw, taxi (Sierra - nice), minibus journey via Nanning to Vietnam and another Communist state, although a slightly less paranoid one than China on first impressions. We're...

Hello! So it's my turn to blog again and since Daniel's last entry (which I notice seem to increasingly take the mickey out of muggins here!) I have actually discovered that one Mr Dong actually completed a walk of the Great Wall several years ago - that'll teach him for trying to be a smart alec with me!Right so what news of late.. well after a whistle stop tour of Shanghai (where the highlight for us was going to the Grand Hyatt for a cocktail on th...