realised that no-one was going to change money with him! It is really difficult the money in Cambodia and Vietnam, as you are given a price in dollars and the local currency, and sometimes your change is both dollars and local currency - very confusing. I’m rubbish at working it out, but Rob is brilliant, he gets a bit confused sometimes but who can blame him when it’s like 28,000 dong to the pound, then he has to work it out into dollars, work out the exchange rate of the dollars and has about 5 different currencies in his wallet!!! Far too confusing for my liking so I usually keep a very low profile in any monetary transactions!!!

We arrived at the border and got herded towards the customs building, more like a brick shed than the usual customs affair! We handed over passports and got sent to another building for a health check. The health check as far as we could make out was nothing more

than a monetary blag. Basically you show them a yellow form and hand over 2$ each and that’s it, there are a few signs telling you the symptoms for S.A.R.S. but that’s about it. You then go and get your luggage x-rayed, then go to a café where you wait and are expected to buy something. Then after about 20 minutes you get your passports back, then get onto a different boat which takes you all of the way to Chau Doc, the first border town. The boat ride to Chau Doc was brilliant, there was only 5 of us on the boat, and it was a proper little touristy thing, no sides and just deck chairs for seats! The scenery was amazing and sitting there in the warm sunshine it wasn’t too long before we were heading towards the land of nod!!! After a brief afternoon snooze we woke up to more of the same lovely riverside scenery. About 2 hours later we reached Chau Doc where we were going to spend the night before heading off to Vinh Long. We didn’t have a hotel sorted out at Chau Doc but had one pencilled in from