Well, it's been a while. My only excuse is that I really haven't had a chance to update the blog because I've been enjoying myself a bit too much. Seems fair enough to me. Anyway, think the last time I checked in was in Brisbane so I shall tell you my story from there. After I left mike's I went down to Surfer's Paradise for a day where I took a surfing lesson for a couple of hours and spent the rest of the day working on my tan! The next day I moved on down to Byron Bay and I really loved it there. It was quite a small little place but was really relaxed. No one was in a hurry and I just chilled out for most of the time i was there. I ... read more

Hi all. Not too much to report since last time. I joined my boat tour on Saturday afternoon and we all walked out to the boat which was called the Atlantic Clipper. The first thing that caught my attention was the water slide! We headed out towards the Whitsunday Islands and stopped for the night near Hook Island. Our dinner was hake with mashed potato and coleslaw, yum. We spent the evening getting to know the rest of the people on the boat (and as there was 36 people there were plenty to get to know). The next morning we were awoken by the crew shouting at us at 6:30 am. After breakfast we took the small boats that were being dragged behind the Clipper to the beach (no I don't know what they're properly called ... read more

Okay so I have been a little rubbish on the updates. I can only apologise but I have been squeezing an awful lot of touristing in! After I finished the tour in Bangkok, I said goodbye to all the amazing people I had met on the tour and took a spontaneous trip down to Krabi in the South West of Thailand. I spent two days there with some friends I had made in Ho Chi Minh City and I had a lovely relaxed two days spent on the nearby beaches and islands. The seas and islands were truly beautiful and the whole thing was so relaxing that I managed to fall asleep in the sun and burn even with SPF 30 cream on. Woops. I left Krabi on Wednesday morning and flew back to Bangkok and ... read more

Hello yet again. Today I'm writing from an internet café in Sihanoukville on the South coast of Cambodia. On Monday we left Chau Doc and drove around an hour to the VietnamCambodia border. We had to get out of the bus with all our belongings and walk over the border, collecting our visas and having a health check with the Doctor. After another 4 hours we arrived in Sihanoukville. The place was just lovely, we went and had lunch at a restaurant directly on the beach and then explored some of the local shops before heading back to the beach for the evening. We had a few drinks and went swimming in the sea. While we were swimming, a thunderstorm started and it was an absolutely amazing experience to be in the sea with the pouring ... read more

Hi again! Sorry if the writing goes a little dodgy, the vietnamese keyboard í doing weird things to the english language! I arrived here in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday and took a taxi to my Guesthouse- Thanh Thuong in the backpacker district òf Ho Chi Minh City. I went out for some dinner after settling in and had szechuan chicken (possibly dodgy spelling) which ưas delicious. Today I took a day trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels which were used by the Vietnamese people during the war. They were fascinating but so warm to walk through. Just so hot - about 35 degrees today. The video we watched at the beginning ò the tour was incredibly biased against the 'horrible' americans and told how they all got awards for killing americans but was very interesting ... read more