Well Hello all from Mui ne Vietnam! We arrived in Mui ne following a 5 hour bus ride from Nha trang. On our way we stopped at a garage which had loads of different types of birds in cages laura ran back to the bus to get me to have a look,when I arrived I noticed a monkey was hanging on the wall right above the toilet Laura had just used,she hadn't spotted him at all. It would of made a really good story if he had jumped down beside her when she was doing her business you might of heard all the way back in Dublin haha! We got checked into our hostel Mui ne backpackers which is only recently done up, our room is really nice and very modern. The back of the hostel ... read more

Hi All, hope all is well at home we are having a great time! We arrived in Hoi An by bus and had a bit of a walk with our backpacks on our backs to get to our hotel, sweaty work that is but that's about as difficult as it gets for us haha! We are staying in a hotel called thanh van which is nice and also has a small pool which is great to cool off. Our first objective is to look around the many tailors to try figure out where we are going to get our clothes made, there are over 300 and the quality and price varies substantially. We picked a small place which had good reviews and was not as expensive as the bigger more well known tailors. You can have ... read more

Hey everyone!! So on Sunday the 9th of September we caught a plane with Laos Airlines from Luang Prabang in Laos to Hanoi in Vietnam, our plane was a (very) small ATR72 Laura was panicking when she saw the size of it haha but it was a very smooth 50 minute flight and we even got served food!! When we landed in Hanoi we bumped straight into Orlagh at immigration, she had just flown in from China and we had not seen her in a year!! It was a brill reunion full of laughs and happy tears lol :) The girls were so happy to be reunited and Ian was beginning to realise what he had let himself in for with us yapping for 2 whole weeks!! We stayed in the Sans Souci IV it was ... read more

Hi everyone we thought it would be best to give this trip its own blog as it was so long. We arranged the slow boat package again with Mae from our hostel who is always so helpful. Our minivan picked us up from our guesthouse at 10am to take the first part of our trip from Chiang mai to Chiang rai, it was a comfortable enough trip once you don't look at all the crazy over taking the driver is doing. While in Chiang rai we got a short amount of time to see the white temple which was good as it was different to all the other temples we have already seen on this trip! From here it was back on the bus and onto Chiang Kong really just a small town on the Mekong ... read more

Hey everyone, were a bit behind on the blogs!! Busy! Busy! But we will add them as soon as we have time :) here is the next installment which is just one week late haha enjoy!! Today we took a day trip from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi so we could visit the bridge over the river kwai and the death railway. We were picked up at 7am and after changing buses twice and recieving a lovely pink sticker so the guides would know which bus to send us on we took off for our 2 hour journey to Kanchanburi. First we visited the Allied War Cemetary, a gift from the Thai people to remember the 16,000 allied soldiers who died while building the Thailand Burma Railway. We even stumbled across two soldiers headstones with the name Byrne!!! ... read more