Iceland

Never being so cold and wet in my life

The gap where the America plate and Asia plate are seperating

Wet

On Top

On top

Very Wet only 10 ks to go

Down we go its a long way wet and cold
Thaks to my fellow French walkers for the photos of the
rain and the hills

Bike ride in Vietnam

I hired a bike in Vietnam and rode up to the Chinese border nar Sapa.

What an amazig place it is .Hanoi traffic at 8 in the morning is pretty hectic but not as bad as i thought it would be as every one is goig the same way as most streets are one way,Except when old mate in front is going a bit slow while he texts and the balloon ladies balloons get caught in a gust of wind and hit you.

 The real danger was when you got just out of town with the trucks and busses going fast and not knowing how to stopand turning a two lane road into a fout lane.You soon learn to get out of the way when a big Horn sounds/the bus's continued to be the bench mark of speed all the way and are only allowed to overtake on blind corners and if traffic is coming the other way.

Girls in the local market

Loading corn

Guards from the hydro dam invited us for lunch and a chat .Several glasses local wine
local cuisine of wild chook and cat and morning glory and the road was mine

On the edge

Road house

Staying down there for the night some where

leveling new house block

A Town

New shop

View

another just sitting

looking for Mum

Think we will go up there and have a look

Thai the guide

Up the rapids

Lunch

Just a creek

Looking 

Road crew

Memorial to the french defeat

Corn to the top of the hills

Bridge crossing

They would not turn around

Sheep head anyone

Son La

Beef noodles break fast

Side street

Brick any one

Up Market Local

Waiting

 Pollution control

Herbs for the Dentist

not happy

Tyre man

Son La local off to work

Early morning

Straight through there we go

Bit of rock on the road

Local croosing her bridge

Lake view

Going to school end of the bitumen

Road goes through the construction site of the dam

Down a big hill

Down a little hill

Just a View

Up into the hills again but not walking this time and its warm no snow.Lunch at the local street shopp
more rice wine and beer ,conversation varied from Obama,Austrlia in the Vietnam war,China and what it might do and how my beard would send his wfe wild when rubbed on her bottom.Could have bought a house land wife and 10 kids for 50k What a bargin.[lol] The riding after lunch was sensational no cows ,pigs ,people traffic,ducks,potholes on road oh for a nice big bike .But this would be the only place you could open up.

Just a hill

Phones???

Whenever you stop they always want to chat

Above the clouds

Hair cut you even get your ears shaved

what ever you want

Chicken any one

Thoughtfull

Must have been a good thought

Fog on the mountain

Going home from school

Welcome to China

Boys having a cruise on the Red River

Tea any one

Neighbours Chat

Not happy he was there for quite a while

Reading

Fuel being taken ouy before we put the bikes on the train

Off the train down to the corner

These girls should have been fork lifts

Bunch of fluffy Ducks

Hanoi is fast and slow

Early Morning Hanoi

Hong Kong

My Old mate elvis came along of course ,Enjoying the view of Hong Kong fron Moniques Appartment