The First 6 Week

We have reached our half way point of our Asia tour. We have travelled 8256 kms since landing in Tokyo via all sorts of transport and we have miraculously survived (only just on that damn Tuk Tuk). This distance does not include what we have walked when we have got to our destination which we reckon must be at least 10km per day.

Many thanks for all the feedback on the blog. It seems we have quite a large readership now and most of you are enjoying our travel tales. I have one apology to make to our biggest reader of all…….the Chinese government.

Thanks to an eagle eyed reader (thanks Judith) it looks like the Chinese government have been reading our blogs and making some changes of their own. If you re-read the Beijing and Nanjing blogs you will see sections of text whited out. I have to say they have done a pretty poor job of hiding it as you can still see the text underneath. We are also surprised that the section in Beijing they did not like was about the lack of McDonalds around the centre…..this was actually a compliment! Now that we are out of China we will be publishing some of the stuff we could not say whilst still in the country, so watch this space.

As you all know, Thailand is in a political mess at the moment so we have booked flights from Cambodia to Kuala Lumpur and plan to spend 3 weeks in Vietnam and 3 weeks in Malaysia to make sure we are in Singapore on the 12 July for our flight to Darwin in Australia.

The blog has been running about a week behind throughout this period but now we are with Laptop we hope to be a bit more up to date and with proper pictures rather than the Iphone stuff we have been taking. Out of the 2000 pictures we have already taken we have uploaded around 60 of the best. Just look to the right and click on the picture to see a larger version. And by popular demand we have posted some pictures with both of us in them (just for the record I am smiling and I am not in any pain).

Both of us are very well and still loving the trip and for those interested, no we have not fallen out yet (editorial comment - although we have come close!!!). We have also both lost a bit of weight (as I predicted) mainly through not eating as much and not sitting behind a desk all day. Emma is still convinced that we will still come back even heavier than we started due to the red wine and fab meals we are expecting to have in Australia and New Zealand.

We love the feedback/abuse we get from our readers so please keep it coming. The more the better as it keeps us writing.

The next 6 weeks feature Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia before we leave Asia for good to start our travels down under!

Emma & Bill