Well, I’ve not done much over the last couple of days. Mainly mope about, buy more DVDs and start to eat more. People have come and gone at the hostel, many of whom I’ll stay in touch with. This is a great way to travel if you’re sociable! The hostel is suffering from a common [...]

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Nothing really much to report other than my stomach now seems to be working OK. I’ve submitted a lesson plan to Blue Dragon based on a 3-week project for the kids and the feedback is positive so I now need to start on individual lessons for translation into Vietnamese. Something to do in New Zealand [...]

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Urgh Today I have mostly felt rough. All I can assume is that it’s a combination of a very late night 2 days ago, and running around for an hour playing football the morning afterwards. I’m very dehydrated and my stomach’s just not happy with me to the point where all I’ve eaten today is [...]

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As I mentioned, I had an early start this morning to play football with some of the kids from Blue Dragon. Now, I have an issue with sleeping when I know I have to be up early. So despite setting my alarm for 7:15, I was waking up at all hours and actually got out [...]

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 NOTE – partway down, things get a little icky. If you’re weak-stomached or vegetarian you may want to skip the later parts of this posting. The beginning and end will be clearly marked in capitals and photos available on request only. Today I started off doing precisely naff all. Give or take. A lie in [...]

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Despite a long day yesterday, and a late bedtime, I was up and about shortly after 7am. Simply, once the light starts to pour into the rooms I find it hard to get back to sleep, so I got up and tinkered about on the interwebnet while the PCs were both free. One thing I [...]

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The train pulled in at around 7:00am – I don’t know when it was meant to arrive, but this was when it turned up. Loi was there waiting for us, and we split into two groups. Kate and Dale were straight off to the bus station for the next stage of their trip. The rest [...]

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 The story of Heaven’s Gate is a sad one, and it’s nothing to do with a very poor film with Richard Gere (I think it was him anyway). Some time ago, I can’t remember how long though Loi did tell us, a wandering westerner found a hill tribe village. He claimed to be an angel [...]

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 We awoke at around 8am for breakfast, and what a breakfast. Lunch would be late, we were told, so Loi hadn’t been stingy with the pancake mixture. Carbs and lots of them! Delicious, sweet pancakes. Chocolate condensed milk to smear on them. Fresh, slices banana to be wrapped in them. I only wish my stomach [...]

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 Sa Pa is like Ha Noi in only one way – they’re both written both with and without spaces in the middle, so excuse me if I flit between the two spellings. As you’ll have noticed, I just managed to get my blog uploaded before our tour guide arrived to pick us up for the [...]

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