Summer 2013

We find ourselves in the midst of a November rain here in London and i've yet to blog the various post-Ghana adventures.  Work, as usual, gets in the way and I reach new levels of sleep-ridden apathy on Saturday mornings.  This doesn't stop the fact that: 1. I celebrated seven years in the UK on the 18th of September and 2. Paul and I spent two weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia at the end of August.

Our rough itinerary:

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (via a six-hour mini-bus ride)
Siem Reap, Cambodia (via another six-hour mini-bus ride)
Hoi An, Vietnam (flight!)
Nha Trang, Vietnam (via sleeper bus--much more on this later)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (via very cheap internal flight)

Our journey began on a sunny Thursday evening and after flights from London to Dubai to Ho Chi Minh, an excruciating bureaucratic queue throughout the visa issuing office pre-passport control and a baggage drug screening, we were greeted/struck by a wave of hotly humid air.  And 3 million motorbikes.

We were warned, but not prepared, for this...