On mothers day in the UK, we spent it wandering the seaside town of Kamakura, my gift to my mother this year was some of the highlights.

Our arrival to Tokyo was an apprehensive one, after the journey from Vietnam was so stressful, the airports were filled with passengers trying to flee the country and flight after flight cancelled, forcing all the passengers to be exactly where they were afraid to be… around other tourists! But setting foot in Tokyo was like…

We thought we were sheltered here in Vietnam from the panic and the fear. It found us. We headed south after Coline’s mother left us, to Tam Coc, surrounded by steep sharp hills of rock, rivers and rice fields. It is a Vietnamese paradise, we had just over 5 days to wait for Coline’s visa…

On a passé deux semaines à sillonner le Vietnam, apprenant les rudiments d’une langue complètement étrangère, la langue a neuf tons différents et si merci se dit “cam on”, on a surement prononcé l’équivalent d’une insulte parce que notre intonation nous a fait défaut! (Véridique!) Les deux semaines sont passées vites, pleines de belles rencontres,…

We are reunited, amid the fog and fumes of the condensed streets of Hanoi. Coline and her mother meet me and take me on a tour of northern Vietnam. We spend a couple of days in Hanoi, they have already walked everywhere in this city twice but somehow still do not know their way around….