AlexandKelly

Hi everyone from the city of angels, We tried posting a blog the other day but i think the internet died so it didn't work :( so here is a summary: We're on the final countdown to when we depart Thailand to head back to England Kelly: =( wahhhhhhhh. We've made all the final preparations: we've just arrived from an overnight bus from Chiang Mai. It was ok except it smelt a bit like poo (blame Kelly) and there were some laddy lads from leeds behind us. We arrived at Bangkok at about 5 in the morning...yay. We are booked in to stay at a hotel for one night then we leave there at 6 in the evening tomorrow to go to the airport. Happy days. We are waiting for check in to open in a ... read more

Hello all, This is just a quick entry to let you all know we are safe and doing well. I (Alex) don't have man-flu anymore and we are in the lovely Luang Prabang province. The shopping here is amazing!! So we are stocking up on gifts and the like. We have sourced a camera wire so we will be putting on our photos later. We will also be adding to this blog later (we haven't been up to much!!) But we will keep you updated on what we have left to do. Oh and the monks here look so wise...so so wise. When I was talking to Granny J about her experiences at the Battle of Hastings we saw so many of them in their orange robes. Coolio. Anyhoo, we have got a photo we just ... read more

We left Hanoi to journey to Vinh which is closer to the border with Laos. We only spent a night at Vinh as it was only a stopover really, so in the morning we started our 8 hour journey to Vientiane (pronounced as Vee-en-tee-en or Vee-en-chen for the locals). The noticeable difference between Vietnam and Laos is the busy-ness. No one honks their horn and things seem a lot more laid back here. Almost...pleasant to walk around... The standard of driving generally seems a lot better and safer and zebra crossings may actually mean zebra crossings... The border crossing went smoothly and as we passed from Vietnam into Laos the scenery changed, there were much less houses and the mountains seem to rise more steeply from the plains straight into the clouds! We have quite a ... read more

Hi all, Firstly we would like to point out to everyone that we added some photos on our previous blog so you should check them out!! We left Hoi An with our tailored garments and full to the brim with French pastries to head to Hue where we plan to see some ancient tombs and citadels. Since our last post we pretty much haven't done much!! The last few days have been spent purely relaxing on the beach and eating really good food. We have been traveling round the city on our bicycles which has been getting us fit. Unfortunately there were a couple of incidents where other members of the hotel (not in our group) had accidents. But we're ok!! So Happy Days. The only incident Kelly and I had was on our way back ... read more

So we left off yesterday saying that were were off to the Mekong Delta to another homestay! This one proved to be a luxury homestay compared with our other one (we think the host family were wealthier), as it had real toilets and showers! We drove to the Mekong Delta from Saigon which took about 2 1/2 hours, and went over a massive suspension bridge across the river... the view was pretty dramatic. The Mekong river Delta is the 'fruit bowl' of South East Asia and produces much of the regions tropical fruits, especially coconuts! We saw big barges with literally TONS of coconuts piled precariously on top of them... We started off the trip with visiting various 'cottage industries', one was a where they make coconut candy and banana candy. We got to try ... read more