DIARY - Tuesday 1st January 2008 There must be something wrong somewhere - because it took 7 hours to go from Barnsley to London, but only 11 hours to go from Heathrow to Hong Kong! It was a great flight, the highlight had to be looking out of the window flying over Novosibirsk, Barnaul and the north west region of Mongolia. The Altai Mts were spectacular from 37,000ft. A snow covered landscape all the more special because I had ridden my bike over them in 2005. The outside temp was a cool minus 50 Celsius so the information read. Saigon was a beautiful 20 degrees, stepping into a warm bath, it was heaven. The traffic was something different. Arriving just as it dropped dark to millions of motorcycles, five on one bike being the most I counted. Organised chaos, a massive swarm of fish swimming up and down the choked roads. "Saigon shuffle" is the way to cross the road. Walk slowly and the bikes miss you, nerve wracking at first but it really does work - one cyclo rider told me he had been working/riding for 22 years and never hit anybody (he didn't say how many times HE had been hit though! Happy New Year to all, it was a fantastic new years eve, different in the extreme!