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We have settled in at Hoi-an enjoying the beach and the food, the weather has been hot, really hot so activities have been limited to mainly swimming in the pool drinking cold beer and loving it. This morning we were up before the sun to watch a magnificent sunrise over the off shore islands, Edith had a ride on the beach cleaning machine, a very large and docile Buffalo, after a sumptuous brekky we visited the old town and did a Cyclo tour which included Temples, Pagodas and a tour of a silk factory which was very interesting. We came home on the pillion seat of a couple of motorbikes Edith,s first ever motorbike ride Tomorrow we are doing a cooking class learning the secrets of Vietnamese cooking so it looks like goobye roasts barbies and ... read more

Arrived home on schedule Sunday 21st. Safe and sound after an arduous flight from Paris and London took about 35 hours altogether. Recovered from the jet lag and are now back in the swing of things, good to see familiar faces. We have lots of happy memories and look forward to the next adventure. Thanks to all who wrote us little comments, enjoyed hearing from you. We did not try Dales little trick, the guards were too well armed.... read more

Finally we got out of london All flights were cancelled on the day we were to leave so we spent an extra day in London Went to Grenwich Village Saw the cutty Sark and stood on the zero meridian of Longitude and saw the Naval museam had a great day, this french keyboard is confusing. Next day up at 3am and off to Heathrow to catch a 7.30am flight, arrived and queued for 3 hours only to be told our flight was closed and we would be booked on the next available flight we got to PARIS at 2pm picked up our luggage only to discover one bag was missing so stood in another queue for another hour to fill in all the details because they had put a lot of the luggage on the wrong ... read more

Just when you think you have seen it all the highlands of Scotland arrive, they are just magnificent, we have traveled up the west side accross the top and are now in Edinburugh. We traveled through through the highlands in typical Scottish weather, Scotch mist they call it, just added to the atmosphere and made it more awe inspiring. By ferry we travelled to the Isle of Skye where we stayed in a hotel that was built 600 years before OZ was discovered so old are these areas, back across the land bridge and down through the highlands past where the battle of Culloden took place - very sombre scene. We were entertained at a Scottish night and Deb got to follow the piper carrying the Haggis which we all then sampled not too bad in ... read more

Left Belfast yesterday and here we are in Dublins fair City. Here they love to give things nick names so molly malone is the tart with the cart or the dish with the fish or the trollup with ths Scollup. Very busy city and a lot of history here went to the Art Gallery and Museum a lot of good stuff here. Weather is a bit changeable sort of like Melbourne but still quite warm. Leaving Ireland tomorrow it is a great country to visit, just soo green, back to Liverpool - beatles country and then to Scotland will keep you posted. Tkanks for all your comments. No Bill, all the ReillyS are in Oz Now ... read more