Another day, another long bus trip! For our trip from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, it’s the usual story of waiting around, unexplained delays and…
There's still confusion about whether the city is called Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon (its previous name until the North Vietnamese won the war), and because its…
We had to get up early to go on our tour of the Mekong delta today. This meant waking up at 6.15, and having a shower. This was a novelty in itself, because for…
The Cu Chi tunnels are north of Saigon, in a wooded area, where the Viet Cong used to live and fight underground against the American and south Vietnamese troo…
All the time that we've been travelling, we've tried to mix together sightseeing and some fun things for the girls. So we decided to go to one of Saigon's wate…
When we woke up we were far away from any city, and deep in rice paddy country. Outside the window was an idyllic scene of vivid green rice paddies, being tend…
We woke up this morning to find that Hoi An town is as peaceful as it had seemed last night Well, all things are relative, and it's peaceful in a Vietnamese sen…
To get a break from walking, we hired a boat this morning for a trip down the river towards the sea. For an hour we just pottered along the river, watching lif…
After three nights in Hoi An, we're ready to move on again, just 70 miles north this time, following the coast to Hue. It's very strange being in Vietnam for th…
Hue is an amazingly beautiful city - not only does it seem to have a slower pace than other cities in Asia, but the river right through th…
On our last day in Hue, we travelled across the river to the Forbidden Purple City. This citadel, used up until the middle of this century, was the residence o…
We're here - another city name that rings a bell - Hanoi. Isn't this where Robin Williams said 'Hanoi Hannah' lived? Is my cultural understanding so low that my…
Do you remember this photo? It was taken a week ago, when we visited a water park in Saigon. What we didn’t know at the time was that three days later the girl…
We've just returned from a 2 day trip to Halong Bay, 3 hours drive from Hanoi. It’s a huge bay with limestone karsts rising up from t…
The streets of Hanoi are teeming with shops selling all kinds of things. Like most Asian cities, the shops tend to be bunched together…
Today we took the girls to see a dead body Give me a minute, I can do better than that!…
After shopping too much in Hanoi, we had to do a spot of panic-packing today. We've gone from travelling ultra-light (just 2 rucksacks…
Well, so much for the seasoned travellers. Today we flew from Hanoi to Bangkok, and I made a mistake that cost me a fortune. Apparent…
