Today we managed to change someone’s life forever! This is Hanh. She’s 36 and has spent almost half her life in this bed. When she was eighteen she was helping her father who has a brick-making company. They were on foot, pushing a heavy cart full of bricks when a drunken lorry driver ran straight into the back of them. Since that fateful day she has not been able to feel anything from the waist down. Hanh rarely goes out in her wheelchair. The road and pavements in Vietnam are full of pot holes, Hanh cannot get up the kerb, the [View Full Entry]

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Me Son This is the oldest temple in Vietnam . It was built from the 4th century by the Cham people. They made the best bricks of them all but know one knows how they were made! Me Son has lasted all this time but was sadly bombed by America in the war . From Samuel PS I went in an army jeep - there is a photo below! [View Full Entry]

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To the children’s delight we travel from Thailand to Vietnam on a small jet! It’s almost empty but when we arrive at Danang Airport, an old US Military base, they have managed to lose about 40% of the total baggage! Not ours though! Feeling rather smug we squeeze into a small taxi destined for the hotel. The poverty, dust, rubble and rubbish in Danang is shocking compared to the gleaming new airport in Bangkok. Only once we are on our way do we realise that our small taxi is positively enormous compared to the rest of the traffic! It seems the [View Full Entry]

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Apologies - currently unable to restore. If you have a backup please edit this entry and save/publish. There is a small possibility that this entry will be restored - only small. I cannot find the original text f this blog but know it was a Happy Birthday to Sam and lots of people replied with Birthday comment. I will republish because it has lots of lovely photos! Rachel [View Full Entry]

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