Hello! You have Stacey back writing for you now so it will be much better!! He He! Anyway we are currently in Hanoi which is very pretty especially the old quarter where we are staying. It’s filled with lots of shops and over hanging trees and is quite charming. So far we have wandered around the old quarter, been to the lake to see the giant embalmed turtle and looked round the French quarter (mainly a posh hotel and Louis Vuitton). Tomorrow we are off on a ...

Now then, Stacey has made the mistake of leaving me in charge of updating the blog rather than editing her entries for spelling and punctuation. Apparently in the last blog we'd made it up to Bangkok so I shall continue... Essentially a pit stop to do nothing more than collect a couple of visas, Bangkok was our first introduction to the temperature and humidity that would become our nemesis during our time in SE Asia. We eventually managed to escape the airport...