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Cat Ba to Hue – the highs and lows

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Think you might have sent the wrong vibes there guys..!

Our journey from Cat Ba to Hue turned out to be a total nightmare from the offset. We arrived at the hotel with which we’d booked the journey (bus-boat-bus-bus) to be told that we hadn’t been booked onto the preliminary bus, and that we’d have to wait until 3pm for the next one. At this point, thoughts of missed connections and losing money were circulating. We gave the man our sternest English looks and sarcastic exclamations but, ultimately, we knew we had no choice but to trust that he would get us to Hue. We set up a temporary camp in his restaurant, hoping that complimentary drinks would manifest (none did) and so Brad went off in search of a moral booster, and came back with 1kg of delicious lychees for 30p! – apparently, he stamped his foot, repeating ‘Vietnam price! Vietnam price!’, until Continue reading →

Hanoi and Halong Bay

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Hi guys,

First of all, xin chào from Cat Ba Island, Vietnam! Quite a bit has gone down since our last post! After three boiling and kind of boring days in Bangkok, we managed to get our Vietnam visas (phew!). In order to fill time, Joe had his first ever Massaman curry; we ate scorpion, which kind of tasted like chicken skin, kind of like seaweed, and kind of like sick (awesome!); we went down to Chinatown, which turned out to be the REAL Chinatown and not the touristy one that was in the guidebook – cool! After wandering through stalls selling delights such as shark fin (£1,000 a pop), whole dried duck, and vaccum packed pig’s face (now we know where they’re getting all their food from on Nothing to Declare), we managed to find a local restaurant where we had an amazing meal of roasted duck noodles and the best chicken spring rolls each of us had ever eaten. Big thumbs up for REAL Chinatown, Bangkok! Continue reading →

A little bit of paradise

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We arrived in Bali yesterday morning – almost landing in the sea as the airport is pretty much a beach, and spent the most amazing fluke of an afternoon releasing baby turtles to the ocean (!?)

After deciding that Kuta, Bali was a bit of a tourist trap, we decided to go in search of a cheaper, more chilled out environment in which to Continue reading →

Night Train to Chiang Mai

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Hey guys, we’re sure by now you’ve all seen the pictures of our Chiang Mai night train experience! Luckily we were able to get bunks together as there were a number of alternative characters in our particular carriage, the most alternative being an Australian guy ‘working on a documentary for the National Geographic’, who began his journey by taking pictures of all the passengers and ended it by Continue reading →