http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/C00PS/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from C00PS en-us Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:46:47 UTC Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:46:47 UTC Trudi and I finally arrived in London on Wednesday 7th May. While out on Friday night I met John's mate JP and together they convinced me to come along for an imprompteu trip to Spain so the next day I booked a flight to meet them there ... Why the hell not That's why I'm in Europe after allBarcelonaIs amazing. Unfortunately since I was only here for one night and most of that night and th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Catalonia/blog-279320.html Ha NoiThe first thing you notice about Hanoi is the noise. Beeping beeping beeping beeping beeping. Whether to announce their presence on the road alert another driver of their passing alert people that they are running a red light whatever the reason Vietnamese love to toot their own horn... Unfortunately quite literally. It is loud incessant and very quickly becomes more annoying than th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Vietnam/blog-279147.html Huay XaiStepping off the Long Boat from across the Mekong we anticipated a more relaxed and cheaper world in Laos... And didn't find one. If anything the prices here were more expensive not less than in Thailand as the savvy locals on the tourist trail jacked prices up to equal what you would pay back home. Also confusing was everyone's insistance on quoting prices in either US dollars or T http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Laos/West/blog-276939.html Well where to begin I'll begin at the start with...Bangkok... and stressing how much you should not bother staying in it. Stepping out of the terminal we were instantly assaulted by taxi drivers and husslers aggressively touting taxies at twice the fair price and pushing us toward their friends' cars. We felt threatened immediately and began to harbour a fully justified wariness of anyone t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/blog-273458.html