There and back again

We had a change of plan and are now in the truly lazy part of our trip, island hoping around the Andaman coast of Thailand.

After the delightful overnight train journey we were happy to arrive in Hanoi even if it was at the stupidly early hour of 5.30am. As soon as we stepped off the train we were beseiged by hundreds of taxi drivers and moto drivers in true Vietnam style (i.e persistent and begrudging when you escape them) [...]

Many things in Vietnam are affected by either the French war of independence and the American war (ie the one we call the Vietnam war), and so it is with the Reunification Express Railway. The reopening of the rail link from Saigon to Hanoi was seen as a symbol of national unification after 1975. It [...]

Madness ! See for yourself.

It has been raining non stop for almost four days now. And not just little showers of rain. Buckets of water falling from the sky. It’s almost like Ireland, when it starts it just doesn’t stop.