WE HATE SHANGHAi! We flew here solely to get our russian visas, we wnt to the embassy 3 times...vvvvv anniyong, scary and stressful, but , thank god, we have them now!(joanne thanks the prayers from home) so we will make it through mongolia and on to Russia, it better be nice, it was such a palava to get in! Shanghai is wierd!full to the brim with chinese ppl but with absoloutley no chinese culture!it is just sky scrapers and flashing lights! also jons camer...

Si Chow! We have arrived in Hanoi, Vietnams capital city and it is very crazy..bikes everywhere! It is even more French then Siagon wth beautiful tree lined boulevards. We were in Hue before which, in the middle of the country, was the old capital. There was a huge old palacial citydel there which we rode round two in a very small cyclo..very funny..we got stared at alot! In fact this country is very starey, on a night train last night, Vietnamese people ke...

Hello, We made it across the border with no probs..they did let us in the country, even though it is still quite strict, obviously joanne and I aren't that threatening to society. So we hit Saigon a couple of days ago. It is a really French city, with baguetes galore. We visited the tunnels used by the Viet Cong in the Cu Chi district, it was so scary, they were really tiny and we got to actually go down into them wich was very very claustrophobic...we were ...

hello , Its joanne I have just meet Jecks and her new freind Chris in Cambodia . I was really not looking forward to leaving the kids and life in Thailand but i had a goo last week at work . As they say God plans how long i should of been working there for . Its strange to be traveling again but Cambodia is such a raw country . There are kids everywere and it so poor. The three of us had two motor bike drivers for the day we went to see the killing fields and...

hello , i expect most of you are doing exams at the moment so good luck . i am so sad about almost having to leave my home in thailand . i have become so attatched to the kids and the lovely people i spend my time with . Last week alot of us took kids to the zoo on saturday . I took chat Sue Darn one of the youngest on the CP wards prob 8 and i think she just enjoyed being out , on Monday Andy and I will have her for the day! The silly thais have more holid...