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q[n++]= "\"It seems odd to leave work early, midweek, to go to a place most people turn their noses up at when they first hear it.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/foreword.php\">Getting to grips with Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Sky is beautiful as we trundle into Nha Trang where, despite it being so early, the station is packed with early rising taxi drivers, cyclos and peddlers\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/sleeping-our-wa.php\">Dawn chorus in Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"I pull back too hard on the throttle in 1st gear and career off across the street, up a kerb and nearly collide with a snoozing cyclo driver...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/motor-biking-ar.php\">Moped issues in Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"When quizzed about whether he thinks we'll make it, the driver looks annoyed and shrugs 'don't know'. \"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/come-fly-with-m.php\">Going with the flow, Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"She is then unlucky enough to see a great big rat bound across her bed, her pillow and out the door...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-legend-of-r.php\">Sinking ship, Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Get it before the masses who discovered Thailand do.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/24-hour-epic-ho.php\">Conclusions on Vietnam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"...the reality is that I was not mentally prepared for everything Nairobi has flung at me thus far...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/nairobi-nairobb.php\">Attempted Robbery in Nairobi</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Lamenting the fact that I left my waterproof at home by mistake, we pack our bag for the mountain.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/climbing-mtkeny.php\">Climbing Mount Kenya</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Handing the greasy notes over in the back of their jeep feels like doing some dirty drug deal...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/getting-on-safa.php\">Safari hunting, Arusha</a>"
q[n++]= "\"...a female cheetah sunning herself like a supermodel on an outcrop of rock...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/safari.php\">Priceless moments in Africa</a>"
q[n++]= "\"we laugh inwardly at our own terrible misfortune...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-journey-fro.php\">Not getting the Express bus, Africa</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Arise very early today - bloody minarets at 5am, generators at 6am.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/dar-es-salaam.php\">Early morning woes, Dar Es Salaam</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Central America seemed to offer the challenge and possibility for discovery we were looking for.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-americas.php\">Setting off for foreign shores</a>"
q[n++]= "\"...chilli to end the night, chillies to start the morning...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/mexicos-beach-p.php\">Local food, Tulum</a>"
q[n++]= "\"I earn muppet of the day award for losing our padlock keys when I take an after-dinner swim in the sea with them tied only loosely around my wrist.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/muppet-of-the-d.php\">Silly buggers in Central America</a>"
q[n++]= "\"It is here that I discover I have lost my Mexican papers...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/border-controls.php\">Bureaucratic difficulties, Mexico</a>"
q[n++]= "\"An inexcusable map reading error on the island, which is only 200 metres across and one kilometre long, leaves us temporarily out-of-town.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-island-of-c.php\">Disaster on Caye Caulker</a>"
q[n++]= "\"Around 1am, three men with guns stop the bus and get on\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-night-bus.php\">Bandit hunting, Guatemala</a>"
q[n++]= "\"The golden lights of Guatemala City are spread beneath us beautifully\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/volcano-pacaya.php\">Climbing volcanoes</a>"

q[n++]= "\"The smoke billows around - adding to the atmosphere (and heat) and making our eyes sting\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/chichicastenang.php\">Chichicastenango on market day</a>"

q[n++]= "\"If I were asked to make an attempt at the most uncomfortable position to sustain for two and-a-half hours for the Guinness Book of Records, this would be it.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/onwards-to-hond.php\">Coping with local transport, Guatemala</a>"

q[n++]= "\"...sent us a riddle through time which is ultimately unsolvable...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/the-ruins-of-co.php\">On Mayan history</a>"

q[n++]= "\"It is as beautiful as a forest but entirely alien. New sounds, new colours, textures and shapes. It is breathtaking: another part of the whole.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/down-in-the-dee.php\">First experience of diving</a>"

q[n++]= "\"The music keeps on pounding all night long but it doesn't seem to matter\"<br><a href=\"/archives/2004/12/sun-jam-99.php\">Partying the night away, Utila</a>"

q[n++]= "\"If there is one thing that unites Indians, it is their entrepreneurial spirit\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1998/07/the-delhi-scam.php\">Struggling with Delhi</a>"

q[n++]= "\"...we travelled in a kind of sadist's zero-gravity chamber; you spend half the time floating in mid-air and the other half having your arse spanked by the seat.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1998/07/the-bus-to-mana.php\">Travelling by bus</a>"

q[n++]= "\"...rabies is a 'uniformly fatal' viral brain disease...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1998/07/of-wellhung-mon.php\">Scratched by a monkey in Agra</a>"

q[n++]= "\"When we arrive the streets are dark, unfamiliar and sinister\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1998/07/little-boys-wil.php\">New day, new town, India</a>"

q[n++]= "\"We lead our camels stiffly to a well where they drink like Hoovers.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1998/07/ships-of-the-de.php\">Desert life, Jaisalmer</a>"

q[n++]= "\"My first impressions are of a hot, poorly maintained and over-crowded city.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/hong-kong-dolla.php\">First glimpse of Hong Kong</a>"

q[n++]= "\"There is a rush for everyone to get off the boat to buy their dumplings and noodles \"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/nanjing-and-isa.php\">Boat life on the Yangtze</a>"

q[n++]= "\"Isabell dashes off but says she'll come back tomorrow at 9am\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/nanjing-and-isa.php\">Voluntary tour guide, Nanjing</a>"

q[n++]= "\"Not wishing to anger a whole nation, particularly one full of 1.2 billion hot-tempered Chinese, we do as he asks...\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/gampei-drinking.php\">Drinking Brandy in Changsha</a>"

q[n++]= "\"One thing as a 'paleface' you can always be sure of in China is being the centre of attention\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/centre-of-atten.php\">Fitting in, China</a>"

q[n++]= "\"The beggars and the shoe-shine brigade are out in full force providing moments of amusement and some beautifully candid photos, \"<br><a href=\"/archives/1997/07/dali.php\">Life in Dali, China</a>"

q[n++]= "\"...huge companies are rapidly closing the gap on the East\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1996/08/trainspotting.php\">Revisiting Berlin</a>"

q[n++]= "\"M.O.R.E. Ministry Of Random Events. This, we decide, will be the recurring theme to our holiday and things are never really the same again.\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1996/08/more.php\">Philosophising in Berlin</a>"

q[n++]= "\"She suggests instead that we are looking for 'beautiful madchen' and neither of us can deny that this thought has been lingering at the backs of our minds\"<br><a href=\"/archives/1996/08/sleeping-with-f.php\">Transparency on trains</a>"

										

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