Just to let everyone know where we'll be during 2006, here's our itinery:

Feb 13 - Niels and I fly out of Sydney for Thailand, we will spend the next three months travelling through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

May 19 - Niels flys from Hanoi back to Aus, where he'll spend about six weeks before flying to London.

May 21 - Mum arrives in Hanoi and she and I travel up through China.

June 13 - Mum and I jump on our Trans-Mongolian tour from Bejing to St Petersburg.

July 2 - Mum and I leave the tour and travel to Europe for about a week, then she flies home and I train or bus it to London to meet Niels.

Mid December - Niels and I come home.