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Central Coast and North Vietnam

November 3rd, 2005

Rupert writes

Hoi An
Tailor shops dominate the streets of Hoi An like water dominates the sea, and so it proved difficult to ignore the temptation to have our clothing desires created. By the end of our first day “maybe” had turned into “what colour”, and that quickly progressed to “we need a bigger bag to carry all this”.
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Flying Update From North Vietnam

October 28th, 2005

We’ve crash landed in Hanoi, and without a moment to catch our breath we’ve booked ourselves to Cats Ba Island, Halong Bay. From there I plan to hire a boat to take me to some rocks to climb, and we’ll likely enjoy a bit of beach and scenery. I hope the weather holds out.

Not a massive amount has happened since our last update but we will give you the full details plus watch this space for the Hoi An Catwalk! With me and Laura strutting our stuff and showing off our latest clothes that we had made up and have now sent home (so very sad to see them go, now we want to go home so we can wear them all!).

It’s late and we have yet another early start tomorrow. No doubt there will be Internet access on the island so we should be able to update the website within the next few days, but if we can’t then we’ll do so as soon as we get back to Hanoi.

Love to all,
Rupert and Laura x

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::: HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAY! :::

October 24th, 2005

Happy Birthday Fay

Today my little sister gets that little bit bigger.
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Good Morning (from) Vietnam!

October 23rd, 2005

Saigon
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Vietnam has many French infleunces; the architecture, their crazy driving (different, but as mad as each other), even the quoc ngu script still used for written Vietnamese was developed by Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit missionary.
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How Frustrating.

October 23rd, 2005

After spending nearly two hours completing our update on Vietnam the legend of Microsoft destroyed our work along with our patients. We’re now in Hoi An, and will update fully today or tomorrow.

It’s raining hard and has been for the last couple of days. We feel right at home.

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Can’t Update Today – Sorry!

October 20th, 2005

The Internet Cafe is closing now and we’re off to Nha Trang in the morning so we’ll have to update when we arrive there. Damn shame because we were nearly finished!

Take care and love to all.

Rupert and Laura x

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A Brief Update From Vietnam

October 16th, 2005

Laura writes
Vietnam has excelled my every expection. Four days into our stay and I have already fell in love with this beautiful vibrant city. Saigon is incredible. This hustling and bustling city is not all it appears on the surface, for through the busy markets and uncrossable roads, tranquility is only a moment away.

Rupert writes
We’ll expand on this in more detail very soon but we’ve ran out of time here. We leave Saigon in ten minutes! And head to Mui Ne, a little north fom here. We’re expecting nothing so it’s all very exciting, but we will miss this place; it’s been easy to feel safe and relaxed here.

Love to all.

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Photos Of Angkor Wat (as promised)

October 15th, 2005

Here’s some photos of the glorious Angkor Wat:
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Cambodia; A Mine Field

October 10th, 2005

Rupert writes
Cambodia is probably what Thailand used to look like twenty years ago, only without the landmines. This is real Asia and in comparison to what we’ve just left behind things are, as the locals enjoy quoting, “same, same but different”. Take buses for example; unlike the -what I at last can identify as- VIP coaches in Thailand locals far out weigh foreigners on board, which suits me as now I get that authentic ride I’ve been searching for, but that’s not where the authenticity of our trip ends. Throw in the pot-holed dirt tracks that make up much of Cambodia’s roads bar a few highways, and then add a measure of, say, four hours breaking down in the blistering heat with air-con working hard but accomplishing nothing but a desperately light breeze that you suck at like your life depends on it (because it does), the drivers’ got the engine cover off and that’s at the back of the bus, which is where your sat, adding another fifty degrees of heat to battle against the air-con-my-arse, and we’re getting there.
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A Few Days Of Nothing

October 5th, 2005

These two pictures sum it all up nicely.
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But if you want to know more…

Rupert writes
Koh Chang is paradise. More accurately the Tree House guest house on Lonely Beach on Koh Chang is Paradise. The beach isn’t perfect, for from it – most of it is filled with rocks and the locals are moving them further and further up so the beach is just getting smaller and smaller and will soon be pushed off the island. However, it’s not the beach that makes this place paradise.
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