James again. Jen has volunteered to do the thankless task of uploading 2 weeks worth of photographs onto the computer, after I moaned persistently about it for 30 minutes. (I am a moan) Anyway, from Hanoi we both booked ourselves on a train "the Reunification Express" too the old capital the royal city of Hue. The train journey was an experience. Let me tell you about it. The train journey was to take 12 hours and as such was an overnight sleeper train. I pe...

Hey peeps, Arrived in Hanoi after a very stressful and long plane journey - only joking it was a lovely treat after endless bus journeys. I think James already mentioned that it was a bit of a shock to our systems arriving in the capital, it was twice as busy as Bankok and the endless beeping of car and moped horns will haunt our dreams for eternity me thinks. We escaped to a lovely "City View" cafe where we could survey the city away from the hussle and b...

Apologies to everyone, Uploading pictures and maintaining an online log is not easy out here. Don't think anyone has ever heard of broadband. Playing catch up with the log and photos. I'll just give a brief resume as to what we did in Laos up to when we arrived in Vietnam. As I said before we both love Laos people. We travelled by bus down from Luang Phabang to Vang Viang , which, gets the reputation as being a backpackers haven. On arrival it was easy to see why...

Okay guys. First of all can I extend our apologies for the lack of photo updates. Technical difficulties our end. (slow computers). Just left Laos for Vietnam. What a shock to the system. Laos, for all those that don\'t already know, is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt countries in the world and that covers both the landscape and the people. With a population of only 6 million and a ramshackle capital city that actually makes Stirling look like New Y...

After nearly 2 months in Thailand we have finally crossed the border into Laos. We took the slow boat (and I mean slow, it took 2 days) to a lovely town called Laung Prabang which literally took our breaths away hence the number of photos we have. I hope you like them because we spent an entire day cycling (which was very hot) round the town stopping every minute to take photos. James and I both agree that this is what Thailand may have looked like 20 years a...