I thought I should finally update this to give me closure (I'm seriously missing travelling)....... So I kind of gave up updating this in South America, simply because I had a diary I updated on the long bus rides, and every time I tried to update this in a back street internet cafe something would go wrong and I'd lose 30 mins worth of some of the best travel writing on this earth. So I'll keep 6 weeks of travel brief. We moved onto Bolivia, where I found...

Day 30 of the beard growing project.... We´ve been in Argentina for 30 days now, and I´m pleased to say that so far STA have done nothing more to balls it up. On another positive note, I´ve started to grow a beard and nothing has started living in it as yet (although a cockroach was eyeing it up the other day). Argentina is a great country, if not a little on the large side. We´ve clocked up 98hrs of bus time just on the top half of the country. Turns ou...

So after a long absence I've finally got round to adding to this. Blogging a month at a time seems to be the way I'm going to do it, so no point fighting it anymore. Before I summarise the joys of Thailands beaches, I'd like to use this platform to vent my anger at STA Travel. How I love freedom of speech online. We had a mammoth trip from Bangkok to Buenos Aires with stop oversin Bahrain, Heathrow and Rio. A daft route I know, but the cheapest. We had a 2 hr co...

After Hoi An, we travelled up to Hue, an old imperial city. It was nice to look round the old citadel and palace, and the royal tombs scatttered around the outside. We tried to hire bikes to see the tombs, but after seeing one it starting chucking it down so we abandoned mission and ended up in a random cafe in a small village, with plastic chairs and lots of locals drinking tea and eating pho. After tea and Pho of our own, with chickens running around our fee...

OK, so after a pretty amazing time in Cambodia we headed into Vietnam. Of all the countries, this was the one I was looking forward to the most. Unfortunately, it got off to a bad start, with Both Laura and I getting ill from a restaurant in Phnom Peng, and by the time we got to Saigon we were in a bad way. Turns out there's not much to do in Saigon except drink, so it's not a great place to be when you have the s***s. We spent 3 days there recovering, and af...