The finish line

After a long afternoon of internetting and agonising on the couch of a JAL office, we've finally set a return date to Canada: 25th April. This will involve evacuating Hanoi (by plane, not by chopper) on the 10th April to a rather unexpected destination: back to Bangkok. There we've got 11 days to delay reality (on a beach perhaps) before heading back to Hong Kong through Macau. China's out - too expansive, expensive, and pointless if we're just using it as a cheap conduit homeward. And in the end, not so bad: the flights we've stitched together come to a paltry $150 CAD each. Isn't Google's currency converter a hoot?