04/18/09 Today I am writing you from Cat Ba, the biggest isle of an archipelago west of the Ha Long Bay. It is difficult to tell you about the past when there are already so many new stories from the present. I will try though… Back to Sa Pa for...

4/6/09 We are on a Thai-Airlines flight to Hanoi, Vietnam, welcomed by beautiful stewardesses. My backpack weighs 5 kg for 3 weeks (almost comparable to Stefan’s…), Jens’ weighs 15 kg. We can thus conveniently travel from town to town. There are several children on the plane and all of them...