Firstly sorry about the spelling etc in this blog I have no spell check thing and am in a bit of a rush. Hope its not too long. Matt On my second day in Hoi An we booked onto a cooking course. We each selected three meals from the menu and then under the direction of a vietnamsse women prepard each one in turn and were allowed to eat our efforts after each one was cooked. Cooking vietnamise style is really easy I think I may give it a go when I get home. I then moved onto Hue arriving [View Full Entry]

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The bus to Saigon (HCMC) only broke down once in Cambodia and then totally on the border where we got our stamps and had to wait an hour for a replacement bus. Once in Saigon we found some accommodation and then I went in search of a Bia Hoi which is basically a load of little chairs and tables on the pavement at the front of a shop and then a big barrel of fresh beer which is brewed there. 2.5 liters for 8000 Vnd, which roughly is 25p. The next day I visited the Cu Chi tunnels where the [View Full Entry]

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From Siam Reap I have traveled to Kratie through Kampong Cham, not a lot in Kampong Cham but there was a cool bamboo bridge that they build every year in the dry season. After a night in Kampong Cham I headed up to Kratie to see the river dolphins. After trying and failing to get a picture of the buggers I gave up and just watched them from the boat. As it was starting to get dark we caught a motto back into town but stopped at a little village on the way just so Karen who I was traveling with [View Full Entry]

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After jumping on the bus in Bangkok we started driving to the boarder however the driver decided he diddn't want to switch the air-con on as he wanted to save petrol. It was only until we were all sweating bukets and three people had asked that he eventually switched it on. The journey contiued with some hard braking and plently of beeping and the occassional emergency stop. That was until we had to pull over to get the bus mended, however I was more concerned that the back left tyre was completly bald. So they changed the fuel pump and then [View Full Entry]

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Hi All Sorry I havn't had the chance to update you as I have been pretty busy. After landing after 11 and a bit hours on a plane I didn't feel that bad which was good and meet up with a couple in the airport and shared a taxi into town. We then explored Khao San Road which to be fair was a bit touristy for my liking and had a couple of beers and some good food of a street vendour. The next moring we set off to explopre Bangkok seeing the palace and the weekend market. The guys left [View Full Entry]

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Right this is the first of hopefully many blog entries I hope. Nearly all packed now. Only got a couple of days till I fly and yes I am thinking what the hell am I doing! Thanks to all of you that made it to the pub on Friday and to everyone for my Saturday night send off. To answer your question YES I did have a monster hang over on Saturday which I was still recovering from at Sunday lunch. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves keep in touch. I have uploaded some pics below but got a bit bored [View Full Entry]

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