Tuesday 19th March We have now got to Vietnam and are back in very hot, sunny weather. Our ship anchored off the Port of Nha Trang so we had to get a tender and then a shuttle bus to take us into the centre of town. Nha Trang is much bigger than we had imagined it to be. It has a long sandy beach with a lovely shady promenade. Most local people seem to travel by bike mostly ones with an engine but also push bikes. They don't take much notice of traffic lights ...

Sunday 17th March We arrived in Hong Kong yesterday and our berth is on Kowloon. The view in the picture was taken from our balcony looking across the harbour to Hong Kong Island. In the picture you can see a Star Ferry that takes you across the harbour very cheaply. We went on a tour yesterday morning. We went to the tramway to go up to The Peak - the highest part of Hong Kong Island. The tramway is a funicular railway that pulls you up the very steep slope. Th...

Wednesday 13th March After a foggy night we arrived a little later than expected in Shanghai and by the time we were allowed off the ship and walked about a mile in the terminal we didn't start our tour to the old town until 11. It was a cold, wet and misty morning so we were glad of our gloves and scarves. I even put on my hat! We were visiting two places the first was the Yuyuan Gardens. Just outside the gardens is the Huxingting Teahouse which is built on an ...

Monday 11th March As you can see in the picture we are in China and have been to the Great Wall but all didn't go to plan on our day here. We arrived at the port of Xinggang before we got up at 5.30. We were booked on the tour that took the bullet train, went to the Forbidden City in Bejing and then stopped for lunch before driving to the wall. There were lots of coaches leaving the ship to do this trip. We were on coach 12 and there was a long drive to Tianji...

Saturday 9th March Today we have come to our second Japanese port, Nagasaki. The weather here is really beautiful. After expecting it to be cold this early in the year, today it has been sunny and very warm. We started this morning by buying a day pass for the tram as it is a very easy and cheap way to get about the city. We went first to the Peace Park in the north of the city. It contains the hypocentre of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on 9th A...