......well, what a epic fail that was. Man alive, what a day we have had! We got to Halong Bay (4 hour journey) to be told that a typhoon would hit Vietnam tonight so we would have to have lunch on the boat and go back to Hanoi straight away. Had an okay lunch on the boat we had booked to stay on and then headed back to the shore at 4pm. Met some amazing people on the boat we made friends with. A lady who lives in Cambodia who I mentioned earlier, a couple from S...

Got picked up on a bus (a bus! We were so worried it would be a lorry / motorbike / elephant because you really never know!) and now we're making our way to Halong Bay. It's a 3.5 hour trip from Hanoi on some pretty bumpy roads but there's some amazing scenery along the way. Our tour guide is great, really friendly and the other people on our tour seem great, mainly Australians and Canadians some of who now live in Cambodia / Vietnam. Just met a nice lady who lov...

Well....interesting start to our stay in Hanoi, Vietnam. We arrived into the Old Quarter and were met by a man outside the hotel we had booked that said our air conditioning had broken so they would move us to another hotel free of charge, looking back we should have questioned it but he seemed to have all of the right paper work (plus we had been travelling since 3am so all we could think was "please just let us sleep!") Any who, checked into the hotel (£3 each...

Me and Ronald (the rucksack) arrived back in Bangkok two days a go after visiting Ko Tao, Ko PhaNang and Ko Samui. Staying near the famous Khoa San Road it can be pretty daunting for a solo traveller. At first look its a sea of people, market stalls, food trucks and people screaming at each other in Thai but when you take the plunge and look a bit closer its incredible. It may be hot, dirty and smell a bit odd in places but its lively and exciting. In the ten min...