The screaming public row that was yesterday simmers still, there’s no need for a trip to the lawyer for divorce proceedings, just a trip to the mechanic that we’re calling a counsellor nowadays. This is the best counsellor ever, it turns out all along that all Rob needed was something shiny to wear out to […]
180 says the scoreboard on the side of the road, the scoreboard that counts down rather than up, 180km until we reach Buon Ma Thuot and the coffee mecca of Vietnam. Greg is in fine fettle after his stern talking to just days ago and even the temperamental princess Rob is making good time to […]
It’s goodbye to little Russia Nha Trang and off to big Russia Doc Let in a short flight of fancy just 40km north. Inspired by images from Mr Do Dien Khanh in his little white room of photographs we’re off to a place that hasn’t graced many maps but has prodded us to change our […]
It’s time to pay the bill, but we don’t have any idea how much we’re to be paying and only a slight idea what we’re paying for; we’re sure we ordered something with beef in it but was there beef in dinner? Yousef hands over some notes and a young boy stands stuck to the […]
Cool air rushes to greet us like a friend a little too exuberant backed by passive ambient music in this embrace that welcomes us in so eagerly from the humid heat of a Vietnam day. In the tourist mecca that is Nha Trang the window to everyday Vietnamese life that was yesterday is easy enough […]
After the stern talking to yesterday Greg is finally behaving like a man befitting my substantial repute and Rob has continued his good form from the lovers tiff just out of Mui Ne. I don’t want to jinx the good fortune but just possibly there’s to be four of us all getting along again as […]
The love affairs continue, it’s back on the bikes and off into the countryside and onto the open road to search out what having our own bikes has to offer, freedom from timetables, schedules and bus routes. With two English guys, Sam and Milo, we charge further into the mountains sweeping on the black ribbon […]
Yesterdays first little jaunt into Dalat promised so much, had us so excited for the place we’re about to get into, taste and see. Waking to bleary eyes and no great abundance of energy it’s time to see if it was all just a rose coloured ruse or if Dalat is the beautiful food laden […]
So distant now is the punishing slog of our first leg on this road trip, getting lost, bad roads, baking sun and sore bums seem a more distant memory than just two days ago. A shimmering ocean flanks our right side in this adventure north, cows graze on a beach and sandy soil even more […]
There’s salt in the air again, we can smell it. The seaside town of Mui Ne is a mark on the map for many travellers for beach time, sunshine and flash bars; for us though the primary function of this seaside oasis has nothing to do with sun or sand and everything to do with […]
Charlie and Steve's Excellent Adventure 