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And now I'm returning with golden great score...

Spedge — Fri, 23/07/2010 - 12:56pm

(Apologies for the lateness of the post, turns out home is busier than being away!)

And I fear that I'll play the Wild Rover no more! I write to you from seat 32D on a very bumpy flight towards Heathrow (though the free Vodka is smoothing things out, bless you BA). We've actually hit the end of our trip and I am sad.

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Expo!

Spedge — Fri, 16/07/2010 - 1:41am

Sorry everyone, got caught in that "if you are doing enough interesting stuff to fill a blog post then you have no time to blog' loop again.

We're now in Shanghai and are sipping on G&Ts after a long day at the World Expo. Now, when we first left the shores of Bonnie Scotland, we had no idea about this event. I'd heard there had been Expos in the past (Crystal Palace etc) but I'd had no idea they were still about - and really had no preconception of what to expect at this.

Wow.

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An Exercise in Frustration

Spedge — Wed, 07/07/2010 - 4:04pm

China is a beautiful place but it can be very, very frustrating.

We had not had washing done in about a week (like, a week after it needed to be done) because we could not articulate to the hotel staff that we wanted our clothes "just thrown in a washing machine" and not dry-cleaned which would cost an arm and a leg. It's for this reason that we've gone back to hostels - the staff are far more at ease with Westerners and travelling types.

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Living-qing in Chongqing!

Spedge — Fri, 02/07/2010 - 5:25pm

It's only 19 days until we're home - and we're both starting to get a bit excited about it all. Our homecoming meal has been planned, planned and re-planned. Nights out are being put in the diary. Just as in the US we had to think about Australia, and in Australia we had to think about Asia - here we're having to think about Scotland and all the things we'll be needing to do when we get back.

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I'm on my way, from Vietnam to China todaaaay. Uh-huh uh-huh.......

Spedge — Mon, 28/06/2010 - 10:37am

The last week has been a blur. We left you in Cat Ba Island, after an epic trip on the local transport - and I write to you in the midst of one. I'm currently on a bus going from Nanning to Yangshou which is advertised at 6 hours. This is after a train journey of around 13 hours with two immigration/customs stops when we crossed the Chinese border at around 3am. Trips like these are becoming second nature - but this one has been especially nice as we are sharing the journey with Guy and George.

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Guest Blog #1 - Alexander Tours

Ross — Tue, 22/06/2010 - 11:35am

There's something strange about the travel bug: no known cause, predisposition or cure but you know when you have the tell-tale symptoms of wanderlust and itchy feet. I know I am definitely a sufferer and it lead me to be incredibly jealous of Stu & Fi's round the world adventure. So much so that by christmas I had resolved to gatecrash at some juncture and I was fortunate that their plans took them through the endlessly diverting country of Vietnam.

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Enter the Dragon

Spedge — Sat, 19/06/2010 - 2:44pm

China was always a mythical place to us - on the vague horizon, something that we knew we'd do eventually in the trip but it was always *months* away. America passed and it was still 5 months away. Australia passed and it was still more than a month and a half away. Now, it's a week away and we had to have an emergency planning session (play dramatic drums/jingle here).

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The Longest Day

Spedge — Sat, 19/06/2010 - 2:43pm

The last few days have involved some serious travelling. On my last blog we'd just arrived in Hue - 4 days later and we're on Cat Ba Island. If you take a gander at the map, you'll see we've covered some serious ground.

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Dedicated follower of fashion...

Spedge — Mon, 14/06/2010 - 12:44pm

We, us humble pair, are now in Hue (pronounced as in Whaaayyy!) just past the middle of the country. We're in a lovely little hotel - but Vietnam is dotted with lovely little hotels that put the west to shame (Comrade).

Over the last four days we've been in a place called Hoi An, just south of Danang (where the Marines landed in 1969, you remember don't you?) where all the tailors of Vietnam come to ply their trade - around 500 of them at the last count. And we've had a rare old time.

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Where we are now...

Spedge — Thu, 10/06/2010 - 7:46am

Yessir, it's been a very long time since we blogged - but there's a reason for that. We've only been doinglikeeverythingthereistodothathaseverbeencoolatanypointintimeever. You'll forgive us, I'm sure.

Thankfully as part of our package tour with Alexander Tours, Ross has volunteered to do a guest blog. I did not ask him what it should be about, only that he blog - so if he doesn't cover what we did (or anything to do with the holiday) then I shall prepare something to fill you in.

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