Have you ever been to Disneyworld? Its a small world - you know the exhibit I am talking about. I felt like we were in it. Hoi An is a top tourist destination in Vietnam. It used to be an important seaport for trading. It is now famous for some very well preserved traditional houses and buildings in the centre, as well as tailors where you can have clothes made overnight for very cheap. It is a tourist magnet and people seem to love it. In short, we hated it. We planned to stay 4 days and have clothes made but [View Full Entry]

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Halong Bay + Extreme sun = SWEAT! Well, we had booked our trip to Halong Bay and set off without any problems. Bus was full of tourists from all over the world, but the island was full of Canucks! Jodi met another articling student who was doing the same as us....small world. The only thing that we can both say is that we had an amazing experience that we will surely not forget. We did a little kayaking and stayed on a private island in a beach hut made from bamboo. Before leaving we looked up the weather network which was [View Full Entry]

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Do not look, just cross The street that is. Dan is really good at following the advice on You Tube - you simply step out and walk slowly and steadily so that the bikes, scooters, and mopeds can manoever around you. He is good at it - but it is scary as &*%$. Map reading skills are put to the ultimate test here as all the streets in the Old Quarter run diagonally and the name of the street changes from block to block. Further the numbers on buildings are in no particular order. Here in Hanoi we have met the [View Full Entry]

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Cheap, fast, and oh so yummy Dan and I arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday safe and sound. If you have to spend over 15 hours on an airplane, you could definitely do worse than Cathay. We tried so hard to stay awake after arriving in Hong Kong and even ventured out to buy buns but by seven o'clock we were fast asleep! Over the next two days we walked around in the 34 degree heat visiting Hong Kong Park, Victoria Peak, the Big Buddha and Po Lin Monastery, Ma MoTemple all the while experiencing the famous Star Ferry and Hong [View Full Entry]

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why am I so tech retarded? [View Full Entry]

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