After a day on the bikes coming over the Hai Van pass we finally got to Hoi An and instead of taking us straight to our hotel they took us to their "families" tailors. We were hot, sweaty and hungry, there was absolutely no way Casson was ordering a suit or I was ordering a dress so we were in and out in less than 5 minutes. This didn't go down well with our drivers!

Hoi An is so nice, the main centre is the ancient town which is a UNESCO site due to the architecture. At night the streets come alight with Chinese lanterns everywhere and the river is full of paper lanterns and candles that people have released.

There's a really nice stretch of beach here so we decided to stay and chill out for a few days. We hired bikes and cycled the 3km each day. Pristine white sands, seafood lunches and lazy days, it was much needed as we felt we'd been on the go non stop again.

One afternoon we were cycling back from the beach at about 5pm and the roads were really busy, the buses and cars were unusually close to us so Casson and I were chatting about this as we cycled. I turned round slightly to talk as he was behind me and the next thing I know it's as if my wheel is stuck and then in slow motion my bike tipped to the right, I couldn't stop it and so I literally crashed and burned! I landed fully on my shoulder, closely followed by my head ricocheting off the pavement. All Casson heard was "oh *F*%£" as I was going down.

I jumped straight up (more so out of embarrassment) thinking I was OK but my mouth was full of blood as I'd bit my cheek on impact. I'd taken a chunk out of my shoulder and knee and my right arm and leg were shredded with gravel burn. Oh and I almost feinted but I think that was more from shock than anything. For the first few days I couldn't move my arm as my shoulder was so sore and it hurt to walk because the bruises were so bad. The one on my thigh was the size of a rugby ball and well over a week later I still have hard lumps were the bruises were. It meant that we couldn't do some of the things we planned and also had to stay a few days longer in Hoi An as I couldn't go on the bus or carry my bag!

I think what made it worse was that it could have been a completely different story if I'd fallen left instead of right as I would have been in the traffic! We've tried to work out how I did it and it was either I turned my wheel too far to the left when I was turning round to talk to Casson or it could have been my flip flop broke and got caught in the wheel. I'm going with the 2nd option as I know I couldn't put my foot down so the flip flop could have been stuck and they break on average 5 times a day!

Once I'd got over the shock of falling, these were my 3 main questions in this order:

1) have I ruined my pedicure? (I'd just had my nails painted that day on the beach)

2) Do I still have all my teeth?

3) Have I broke my sunglasses?

Casson took great delight in making the cuts sting like mad by using iodine to clean them but managed to not crack a joke until I was feeling better.

General points
1) We're so over being hassled to buy things when we're walking down the street, having a drink, having breakfast, basically any time we leave the hotel. I've become much harder to it than Casson, I say no thank you and carry on walking even if they're still talking. If we're sat down I say no thank you and then look away, even if they stand there talking to me or just staring for another 5 minutes I ignore them. I dont think I'm being rude, I think they're being rude by interrupting my meal. I'm trying to toughen Casson up as he's so polite that he ends up saying no thank you about 20 times!

2) This is from Casson "It's become clear that Groves is unable to ride a bike and needs stabilisers, this is the 3rd time she has fallen off her bike on this trip, she is becoming a liability"