I think an electric blanket is set to be a future investment - I slept so well! I couldn't even stay up to watch Confessions of a Shopaholic it was so cosy! The room outside of the blankets was not so cosy, and I quickly dressed to avoid the cold. I met Nat for breakfast at 8am, again managing to get out of my room without distress. We had scrambled egg and baguettes with some banana and passion fruit - yum. I donned my wellies for the second day, hoping they'd...

Never say never! The Sapa tour couldn't have started any worse; I was ready and waiting at the hotel at 7pm, but after both 8pm and then 9pm passed I was worried. The staff tried calling the office to no avail, and after sitting with them as they picked their noses and explored their hair for foreign bodies I was getting a little fed up of their company. They finally got through to some sort of tour guide at 9.15, when a woman shouted in very bad English to get ...