The World Wide Webber

For those who are unaware what the DMZ is (as i was before visiting the place) it stands for De-Militerized Zone which is 1 of the most heavily bombed areas of Vietnam during the American War. I say American war as this what the Vietnamese call the Vietnam war. It makes sense i guess for them to call it the American War but takes a little getting used to. Firstly i should explain that we had arrived in a small cafe in a small town, 15mins away from where the DMZ border is, for breakfast as we had been on the night bus to Hue and were not to far away from the city. As we were eating our breakfast the shop owner asked everyone on the bus if we would like to take a tour ... read more

As we entered Vietnam for the first time we knew that your first ride from the airport to a hotel you usually get ripped off because you're getting used to the prices and currency. We knew and expected this, however we didn't find out just how much we had got ripped off until we left Hanoi. As we got dropped off at the hotel we asked for we got told there was no rooms and we got taken to a 'sister hotel' actually called Sister Hotel. We gave the taxi driver the $15 USD we'd agreed for about an hour taxi ride. We later found out that someone else had only paid $5 - Oh well. At the hotel we looked into booking a 1 day 2 night tour around Halong Bay which we saw on ... read more

We took a short 'island hop' from Koh Phangan to Koh Samui by boat which only took about an hour. When we arrived we went passed many beautiful hotels and restaurents until we arrived at ours...first impressions: very cracked little concrete road and car park surrounded by a lot of little 'terrace flats', not exactly the same to what the brochure/leaflet had shown. However, we found that the room was clean and tidy with A/C and the bar and restaurent served good food and had a live band on every other night plus the beach was only a 5 minute walk away. So overall, not too shabby! ·Over the next few days we pretty much glued our selves to the beach and enjoyed (and suffered from) the extremely hot weather. Needless to say i got sunburnt ... read more

As we pulled out of Hua Lamphong (Bangkok Train Station) we knew we had booked a overnight sleeper train but were having some trouble wondering where the hell the beds were. So around 2 hours into our journey we prepare our self for an uncomfortable night sat on any old train seat, until a man in a uniform come round and turfs us out our seats and starts fiddling around with something on the ceiling that looks like a overhead storage compartment on a plane. 30 seconds later and he's pulled a bed out the train ceiling and converted 2 seats in a lower bunk...things seem to be looking up! Although that didn't mean we got much sleep...Sal got a good 5 hours although she says otherwise! From the train we got a straight transfer to ... read more

Just starting up this blog - still a long way to go before traveling any where nice - although going down to Brixham on the english south coast next week so should be good. If anyone can tell me any good companies for worldwide travel insurance? i'd appreciate the help!... read more