04/11/2010Abandoned . . .It was farewell to Miss Young as she went to the airport to fly home.Dunning family day out minus master dunning, to the big budda, the mother was snappy happy here, easily pleased by a big budda painted gold, pretty hideous really. Brunch time and shopping in khao san road, where I bumped into the two lads I met on the Halong bay trip, small back packers world. Before we knew it we were walking to the palace to find that it had closed fo...

20/10/2010Motor bike, motor bike, motor bike, beep beep . . .We got ourselves a motor bike for the day. So after brekkie it was ready steady go. Laura was on the back and as I've never driven one before except attempted in Spain a couple years back with a 15 stone (maybe more) bloke on the back, it was rather amusing trying to pull out the garden with Laura on the back. The woman at the hotel were amused, it was like the tandum bikes all over again. I kicked Laur...

19/10/2010Confessions of a weak bladdered girl . . .Our bus for Dalat left at 7am ish, where as we left the hostel Steve checked in! The sleeper had some negatives and positives compared to the other sleeper we had. This one our feet weren't encased in and we got given the whole back seat with loadsa room to ourselves, underneath 5 chairs of course, it was like crawling into a tunnel. Only problem was, there was no toilet on this bus.So as always I need a wee. Ev...

18/10/2010Playing in mud . . .We arrived earlier than expected just though it was a 12hour bus trip, once off we walked to the sons and daughters hostel where we dumped our bags, grabbed our stuff and went for brekkie and a paddle in the sea. We bumped into Teri at the hostel who had had her bag nicked on the beach the day before (we met her on the sapa trek and then she rode past us on a bike in hoi an) We booked the open bus ticket time for the next morning as ...

17/10/2010Master chefs . . .I got up 7am ish and went for a walk through the slaughter market, past the fish market, the fruit market and then round another island. We were planning on spending 2nights here but after looking round I decided I couldn't as all you can do is shop or get clothes tailored made. So after eating a weird breakfast of street food of bananas and sweet potatoes I ventured back bumped into miss young getting her coats tailored made, and rese...