Noelly

Ok, its official - this is the most beautiful place that I have ever been in my entire life. Its stunning and amazing and a perfect postcard of everything that you picture a paradise island in the south pacific to be. But its much more then that, its much more then the forty degree temperatures, the volcanic mountains covered in lush green palm trees, the umteen tones of blue and green of the crystal clear water, the coral reefs that create a beautiful lagoon around the Island, the tropical fish, the french speaking chilled out locals(not to mention the french cooking), the lack of mainstream tourists with over sized cameras and tour buses. Moorea (which I'm told is not even the nicest Island) mixes all this with hundreds of other great bits - like the ... read more

Hey Everybody, Hope your all well, glad that the king was home for a visit!! Can't believe that the Pool didn't stuff Sheffield United at the weekend. We are currently in the 'pearl of asia' Phnom Penh in Cambodia. We caught a bus here yesterday from Saigon in Vietnam to Moc Bai at the border. We're getting used to pretty long bus journeys so it was a pretty straight forward through CuChi (famous for the tunnels), we played with more kids (we've moved up in the world from adopting animals to just taking kids (well if its good enough for Angelina and Brad!). When we got to the border we were given the usual no instructions at all as the bus just pulled up in a restaurant car park. Moc Bai is a typical dodgy little ... read more

Okey Dokey so I'll keep it brief - we caught a night train from Hanoi which was a nightmare - 6 hard bunks in a room smaller then my backpack! and we were the ones in the middle with old Vietnamese men above and below us coughing, farting and generally pleased with themselves having come to Hanoi for the day! To top it all we got the news that Tony's heart op had to be cancelled at the last minute! Dulce was just about resigned to going home! Anyways despite it all we got some sleep and woke up in Hue - which is a town with a lot of history; both the Chinese and the Americans were in hoooge battles with the Vietnamese for this town and lost. BUT we decied to keep on going. ... read more

So we got to the Marriott and lushed it up with room service, a bath, free toiletries and robes don't you know! Tony and June (Dulces folks) turned up the next morning earlier then we had expected and instead of being at the airport gleefully waiting for them, we were firmly ensconced in our super soft king-size bed with cable TV and views across the Chaya Phraya river! We spent the day in or around the hotel as Tony and June got over the jet lag, made a quick trip on the sky train up to the Chatuchak market then back for more room service! You’ll notice a theme starting! The next day we took a river taxi past the grand palace and through the canals around Bangkok. We passed fish farms with massive fish practically ... read more

Hello Everyone, Ok, so obviously its not the 15th of July, its about a month later!! Sorry I've been crap this last month at updating this thing - we have been moving quite a bit and haev struggled to find decent places to load the pics up on the net, and lets be honest without he pics, its just me prattling on (saying beautiful alot!) We were really really sad to leave Vang Vieng - The place absolutely rocks and everyone that we've met since that has been there, really raved about it! Anyways, we caught a minibus up to Luang Prabang - we didn't see any of the famed bandits on the roads. Just the usual manic driving, overtaking trucks on hairpin bends going up steep hills and in the cloads so you can't see ... read more