Just got back from church. We were invited to mass by a lady that runs a school that we will hopefully be teaching English at. It is actually just one room in her house but she has 400 students on her books. We were introduced to her by an existing teacher who invited us to join his class so we could introduce ourselves to the students and try to solicit some private lessons or maybe an invitation for English people for lunch/dinner or a coffee. The iced coffee (...

Now we are holed up in Hoi An on the central coast, while we wait for the torrential rain to stop. But I don't think it ever will, it has been raining HARD for the last 36 hours. At last we can do our chores - blogging, uploading photos and planning next steps. It may not sound like chores but it does become wearing at times. Anyway... We were right to be apprehensive about going on a tour. Within 10 minutes of getting on the minibus some very loud and hungover...

Now we are holed up in Hoi An on the central coast, while we wait for the torrential rain to stop. But I don't think it ever will, it has been raining HARD for the last 36 hours. At last we can do our chores - blogging, uploading photos and planning next steps. It may not sound like chores but it does become wearing at times. Anyway... We were right to be apprehensive about going on a tour. Within 10 minutes of getting on the minibus some very loud and hungover...

Hi, we are currently on Cat Ba island in the north of Vietnam, but I have also been a bit slack keeping things updated so I will recap on what I've missed out... We were not looking forward to our last train journey in China - everyone had warned us not to travel during the public holidays. But it turned out to be one of the most comfortable journeys we had in China. It was a clean and new double-decker train with comfy seats, even though it was classed as a 'ha...

Back in touch Wow! It's been a while since the last update hasn't it? I can't say for sure as time has lost pretty much all meaning. What seems likes weeks to me is probably only a few days in reality. Actually Em informs that I do in fact have two weeks to update. Also, it seems that I under- estimated our readership as the requests have been flooding in for more updates.I should explain the reason for the recent gap in information…Myself and Emily have been ...