Mon 6/8 Still raining today but not as bad as last night. Luckily we have no activities just a boat and bus ride back to Hanoi. Kinda fine coz it keeps the temperature down a bit. Arrived back in Hanoi around 5pm and went for another Italian buffet before having an early night. Tue 7/8 We had planned to head north and do a 3 day trip to Sapa but its forecast rain for the rest of the week so booked a bus down to Hue for tonight instead, hoping to get away from ...

Tue 31/7 After only about 4 hrs sleep we headed to catch our bus, at least with it being early there was no traffic and very few people at the bus station! Bus is comfortable enough which is good since we don't know how long its going to take. At about 12ish we stopped for a free lunch which was hardly fit to eat, some sort of fish tasting balls with rice and veg. Surprise, surprise there are guys there ready to change your chinese money for vietnamese. We had h...