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Cruising from Paris to London on the Eurostar was a cool experience. The only downside was that I wanted some pictures of both French and English countryside (both of which, at least along this particular route are essentially the same) but because the train goes so incredibly fast (I think around 350km/h), any attempts at a photo from my window seat appeared as simple blurs of green grass and overcast clouds. In fact, looking out the window and actually thinking about it quite freaked me out because I’d never gone that fast on land before and anything remotely near the tracks seems to whiz by before it’s even beside you. I arrived in London and took the underground back to the familiar neighbourhood of Clapham where my cousin Aura and her boyfriend Harvey reside in ... read more

Well, last time I left my readers I was finishing up my time in Thailand. Hua Hin was a great place to visit for all our needs and we finished up there with some skin diving and Mua Thai kickboxing. Actually, it was the kickboxing that occured first and caused some serious hangover problems for the snorkel trip -but those details aren't important. Well actually, they are because they're funny -I guess I changed my mind. T-Bone threw up over the side of the speedboat and James lay on his back in the water moaning for quite sometime, I managed to do allright and even had another beer with lunch. Judy and Larry somehow escaped the wrath of our endless rounds from the night before unscathed. We all dreaded the return to Bangkok but at the ... read more

Well my adventures in Laos only seem to get better as we head southward from Luang Prabang. Before I continue though, I want to inform all my readers that the email alerts for my blog updates have been absent for quite awhile, and I had planned to inform everyone with this update, but it seems the website has a new mail server they're testing, so if you haven't read the blog in awhile, take a peek back and there may be new entries that have been written you weren't aware of. In anycase, Laos has been a real delight for me, mainly because there hasn't been a rush to move onwards, and it's always quite refreshing to have more than enough time budgeted for a given location. So, with our freedom of time we decided to ... read more

Well, our time in Vietnam was drawing to a quick close but several important social events and a busy eating schedule kept me around in Hanoi a little longer. We arrived to celebrate Trevor's birthday (which I mentioned in my previous blog) and felt that it was a smashing success even though we couldn't find an open establishment after 12:30 or so and had to return home kind of early. Days later we then celebrated Ryan's 26th birthday the only way we knew how -out on the town. Our previous challenges we met facing the curfew in effect (what seemed citywide) were eased when we stumbled across a beer garden with very, very cheap draft beer (possibly the cheapest in the entire world we're told) a pack of rowdy Mexicans, two Scottish lads and some goodfellows ... read more

Well it's official, Vietnam is quickly climbing the list of my favorite countries in the world on a seemingly daily basis. The food, though not as popular where I come from compared to it's other Asian counterparts is something that I've grown accustomed to and enjoy more than ever. The soups, vegetables and coconut milk I intake everyday are making me feel refreshed, strong and simply put -good. At this point I can share similar words about the trip in general. After a few days in Saigon our pack of travel goers ventured south into the liquid like lands of South Vietnam's heart and soul -the Mekong Delta. Buses and ferries took us into the very important wetlands that seem to fuel nearly 40 million people along the coast of the South China sea. The fishing ... read more