18 months of summer

ok, has been a while since I updated and we’ve covered many a thousand miles in the meantime, not just in the air!

Dalat was where I left it previously, which ended up being by far the most awesome experience so far, and likely altogether. I wont give it all away, but I spent 3 days on the back of a motorbike entirely exposed to the elements, in the most impressive highland area in the south during monsoon season! That’s enough said for now.

The bikes dropped us off in a place called Miu Ne (may have already forgotten the spelling and certainly never understood the pronunciation!) where we had only 5 minutes to explore some pretty extensive sand dunes. The great thing about this was the road to get us there. The highlands are pretty much a very high elevation plateau with extremely steep and sudden edges, particularly in the south (our route). the road was awesome, views incredible and almost entirely empty!so we weaved and weaved til the beef came home, felt a little uneasy in my shorts and t shirt but was rather distracted by the mountains and massive HEP plant on the way down, loved it.

so then we went straight to Saigon, a city which I cannot recommend enough. have never found it so easy to meet the locals. plus we stumbled across some really friendly and generally excellent travellers literally seconds after vacating the bus, helps! 2 days there and an awkward bus trip and border crossing accompanied by a Jake Gyllanhaal look-a-like 😛 and Vietnam was fully dusted.

Cambodia turned into a bit of a whirlwind considering we pretty much did the two biggest destinations and traversed the entire nation in 3 days! luckily we managed to trade the bus for a high speed boat to Siem Reap from Phnom Penn, was fun but severely caught us off guard with the suncream! that was the last time, thank god that i’ve properly seen the Sun and my arms continue to peel. Angkor Wat was incredible but should be done in a week, not the 1 day we had. Be prepared for electricity failures and money swindlers to the extreme. Most people say bew3are of the kids, but I say beware of the police! for surprisingly similar reasons.

another border and back to Khoa San road for fun with the drunked british hoards :S enough of that

we are in Oz!!!!!hooorah! is what I wouls have said a month ago in anticipation. Now however, everyday is a monetary struggle, its rediculous. We honestly though twice about buying a can of beans! So work is on the agenda a lot earlier than assumed before. A week in the awesome city of Melbourne left us almost wanting to hate Sydney so that we could decide where to settle. We now realise that they whilst they both have their perks, Melbourne takes the biscuit just for being a bit friendlier and easy going. Ive seen the opera house a couple of times, but am yet to hit the beaches, god help them when I do. My saving grace is the season. Not only do we have time to recover our skin from Cambodia, having just come out of their coldest winter in 15 years, theyre pretty pasty 2!!woop woop!

all is a bit uncertain in the immediate term, but it will be revealed when we have our heads in the right place!

So long, speak soon and I miss you all tonnes and TONNES!! xx