6th October So Hanoi here we come! Up and out early after a brekkie of baguettes with jam and butter or a fried egg ( this seems to be pretty much standard for most of Vietnam and so it would seem variety is not the spice of life when it comes to breakfast!). We manage to navigate the maze of little back streets round by our hotel and head back to Hoan Kiem lake to get our bearings. Bach Ma Temple and Dong Xuan market are on the cards and after some superb map r...

Sooooo, after travelling through China we realised that a blog may be the way to go to make sure we are keeping all and sundry up to date on our world adventures! Unfortunately, we can't be bothered to try and blog about everything we did in China - it would literally take us ages and so we shall just start from Vietnam! So we left Hong Kong on the 4th October and touched down in Bangkok airport knowing that we had an epic 11 hour wait ahead of us until we could...