The Mekong Delta is, as it sounds, the large Delta area of the Mekong to the far South of Vietnam. I went on a boat trip into the Delta which was brilliant. We started on a boat for about fifteen people and went across a large section of water before going into the smaller waterways. […]
Read the rest of Thursday 20th March – The Mekong Delta
After leaving the Windsor Plaza hotel I headed by taxi to the backpackers’ area of the city. I went to two ‘hotels’ which were full and wandered round like a gormless idiot looking for somewhere to stay. I came across another ‘hotel’ which was also fully booked and they phoned all of their partnership ‘hotels’ […]
Read the rest of Wednesday March 19th – My next hotel, the Cu Chi Tunnels and a palace (which I have forgotten the name of – oops).
I got to the hotel and found out that they hadn’t got my online reservation. I later discovered an email telling me that there were not any vacancies. Anyway the email was a big stinking lie as I checked in. I just forgot the name of the hotel but then remembered I’d “borrowed” one of […]
Read the rest of Tuesday March 18th/ Wednesday March 19th – The Windsor Plaza Hotel
Although in its title this may sound a bit of a strange entry but believe me journeys by road here are enough to fill an entire library. The roads are absolutely crazy. Katie Mehlua got it wrong when she sang about bicycles in Berlin, I might write to her and suggest she pen, “mad motorbikes […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 18th March – The journey to my hotel from the airport and roadtravel in general.
I arrived in Hong Kong very early in the morning. I pottered around the airport for about an hour or so. I had a couple of cigarettes in the small, somewhat nasty, smoking rooms. I couldn’t quite tell if all the men inside stared at me because I was breaking some kind of social more […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 18th March
So, the start of my journey…. Having left to get to Heathrow with plenty of time for the suggested 3 hour prior to arrival check-in, we traveled almost the whole journey in gridlock on the M25. It turned out that the suggested 3 hours was overly cautious though and I caught my plane in plenty […]
Read the rest of March 17th Leaving the UK