Just checking in in a new place. final night of two here in hue. Heading 4 hours down coast tomorrow to Hoi An, guess you could say im doing the Top Gear trail backwards. Hue is nice but I expected a bit more from the place. Its cut in half by a river and on the other side of the river is a walled city which contains a citidel and a purple city, all this sounds very exciting but is infact mostly ruins. The whole city has its charm thats for sure but I was ho...

Very quick, spent the last three nights on cat ba island in halong bay. Got here quite late the first night so just got the boat to a floating restaurant and ended up joining a Chinese works holiday who were very happy to see us and involve us in their drinking games! The next day we all rented motorbikes (although I went on the back of pauls not being road savvy myself) and we spent the day exploring. Yesterday we jumped on a boat trip around the day but I got p...

Just a quick update since my phone aint working and i cant get on skype as often. After a 24 hour bus ride from Vientienne (Laos) I'm now here in Hanoi. Wasnt expecting to come to vietnam at all but after getting to vang vieng and meeting up with fellow teacher fiona and some of the guys she was travelling with by the time I'd lost a few days to tubing and hangovers I was convinced that travelling to halong bay with these guys would be a laugh. Theres just the...

i'm in heaven! Thats pretty much all I can say. The journey here was pretty different to last time and it had me a bit worried! The two day boat trip from the border was rammed with people, it would appear Laos is about five times more popular than it was three years ago, to an extent it felt like we were cattle being herded but on the up side it did give Lauren and I a chance to meet some lovely people and in all it was stil;l a lovely couple of days. On reach...

Hello from finally sunny Chiang Mai! Was planning on being on my way to Luang Prabang by now but cant drag myself away from this awesome place and the amazing people ive met here! Honestly at first glance I wasnt to bothered about Chiang Mai but it seems the more time you spend here the more you can't bring yourself to leave! It continued to rain throughout the the next day and our visit to the elephant sanctuary but as expected it made no difference to my enjoy...