Chris and I had flown back to Vietnam, and specifically Hanoi, to find work and somewhere to live for a little while. We were not ready to fly home but we were both ready to settle in one place for more than a couple of weeks. Having met some fellow travellers who had lived and worked in Hanoi for three months teaching English with little experience and no qualifications, we thought why not give it a go. We both like a challenge and love trying new things. Beside...

We boarded the plane at 10am to fly to Singapore. Both Chris and I were very excited to be spending a long weekend in the ‘Lion City’ before returning to Vietnam to find work. For Chris it was another new country to explore, and for me, having visited when I was 17 years old (8 years ago!!), I could show him some of my favourite spots. It took us a little while to get through customs and work out the public transport options to take us to our hotel, b...

Java is one of the only islands in the huge archipelago that has a public train system. So rather than paying a lot more to take another flight, we decided to utilise the system and save our pennies.Having bought the cheapest tickets for the nine hour train a couple of days before, we arrived at the station feeling a tad apprehensive. Amelia was envisioning the worst - a long cramped journey in smelly, dirty conditions on bum numbing wooden benches. I was trying ...

The last minute flight from Labuan Bajo to Bali was on a very small propeller plane. Both Chris and I were a little nervous as we climbed the small and very few steps into the plane and took our seats in the second row. We had reason to feel nervous since an aeroplane had gone missing in Eastern Indonesia a couple of days before. However, as soon as we were in the air the incredible views over the world's biggest archipelagic state were enough to take our min...

The wooden boat we boarded to embark on our trip was far from what we'd envisioned. We were 'welcomed' on to the rotten boat by an old captain, and his two young crew members. Amelia and I were first to board the cramped, rotting boat, to be told we had to squidge up and wait for six others! Whilst we waited for the other six to join us, we made ourselves ‘comfortable’ and tried to make conversation with the crew. Unfortunately, with our l...