Our camera memory card sadly corrupted the photos of our travels so far. I lost some remarkable pictures so you'll understand why I'm pretty sparse on pictures for this entry! I will add pics when I can and let you know when I do so. Oriel and I are now tying up the loose ends of an interesting excursion in Vietnam. We haven't travelled around as such. In fact we've only been to two places: Hanoi and Sa Pa. As of putting this together, we are in Hanoi for the last few days before we get the plane to Cebu, Philippines, [View Full Entry]

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Despite being longer than our flight out to Dubai, the fact we flew to Hong Kong at 9.40am and arrived and 9.40pm (local time) made the flight much more bearable. Duncan (old friend from Uni - a Canadian whos family moved out here 11 years ago) took us back to his flat. On the way I was struck by how, in contrast with shiny new Dubai, how old and battered some of Hong Kong looked. Im sure he wouldn begrudge me saying that Duncans flat is very much a Boy Flat, geared towards long periods of computer gaming (both of his [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Dubai at about 7.45am and it was 33 degrees outside. Thankfully, on the first day, it was a dry heat but it was pretty humid for most of the fortnight. The first thing that struck me about Dubai was that it was much bigger than I'd first imagined. The clusters of towers sprawled out around us and in to the distance as we drove to Cam's (O's best friend) flat. A common misconception about Dubai is that it has loads of oil and it is this which financed it's rapid growth over the years. In fact it is [View Full Entry]

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Tis the night before we fly out and we are as ready as we'll ever be. We realised in time that we're flying from Heathrow rather than Gatwick so we're probably going to save my parents a lot of effort and get the tube to the airport (it's only a short drive from my parents' house to Wimbledon). More soon! John x [View Full Entry]

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