Andy's Blog - Gone Further

11 September – 15 September Our flight into Vientiane included the most interesting immigration procedure yet. The plane landed in the arse-end of nowhere in Laos and we had to get off and walk to immigration through a building site before getting back on the plane.  Everyone on the plane was scammed for a dollar [...]

5 September – 11 September As I said in my last post, we had no real plans to go down to Sihanoukville. It is a small town on the Cambodian coast with a great beach, great bars and many stunning islands off the coast. That being said we have lots of beach time planned in [...]

We are about four weeks into our ten week trip. When we set off the plan was to get Singapore, KL & Bangkok out of the way and then fly to Hanoi and work our way down the coast of Vietnam and then whizz through Cambodia and Laos. We anticipated that Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos [...]

Even the locals aren’t sure how to pronounce it.  Some go for Nom Pon, Some manage to pronounce the ‘P’ at the start.  I tend to go for Nom Pen. Our journey here was by bus from Ho Chi Minh City.  If you believe dirty-haired wannabe-hippy backpackers (there’s a whole post on these to come [...]

This is my second attempt at a Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC – formerly Saigon) blog. The first one was more like a history lesson; I don’t even like history that much. I’ve redone it and hopefully this is more what I’m after. I may do a good, chunky historically-factual blog in due course but [...]

We weren’t sure where to go after Hanoi. Do we go to Hue and visit the Citadel? How about Da Nang for China Beach? We eventually settled on a route that would take us to Hoi An and then onto Nha Trang – the therory being that we would be able to explore the historic [...]

22 August 2009 – 26 August 2009 This was stop one in Vietnam and represented our first port of call during the trip where we had no idea what was going to happen next with no set itinerary from here on.  As we were arriving late in Hanoi and Pezza was suffering from what is [...]

We arrived in Hanoi on Saturday and are here again now however we have spent the last two days out and about in Ha Long Bay… There are no words that can describe this place that can possibly do it justice. I’ll have a stab at it anyway. What you see in the pictures is [...]

After a week in Singapore & KL with their hefty taxes on alcohol we were looking forward to having a bit of a blow out in filthy-cheap Bangkok where a bucket of strong cocktail will set you back about three pounds whereas pint in KL was about the same price. Our plans were scuppered in [...]

We knew we’d enjoy Kuala Lumpur, we don’t know too many who have been but I haven’t heard a bad word spoken about it and the pictures you see tell it all – a vibrant and modern city in typical Asian surroundings. As I said in the first KL blog, we arrived in the afternoon [...]