Day Thirty-Six St Joseph's Cathedral, Hon Lo Prison with Museum & the Temple of Literature Early morning rise ready to sample our first Vietnamese breakfast in the hostel as it was free. We had been informed by our Argentinian friend Ana that she would be arriving in Hanoi today from Nanning. Downstairs in the seating area all we could hear was Spanish talk - yipee Ana was already here!!! It was great to see her & we couldn't wait to hear the rest of h...

Day Thirty-Five Exploring Hanoi & Hoan Kiem We had a lovely relaxing sleep in our nice hotel but it was time to get up. I ran a nice hot bath so I could rest my bones whilst Andy put the football channel on again. Life seemed too good here, it was great. With us getting up quite late we had missed the free breakfast at the hotel which was a shame. We had to repack our bags so that we could go to the reception downtairs & move to the hostel which we had ...

Day Thirty-FourVietnam Here We ComeEarly start for Andy as he hadn't done any packing whatsoever, I pretty pleased with myself that I managed to do it all last night as there was no way two of us could be moving around & trying to pack at the same time in our small room. Lovely English cornflakes for breakfast & the milk wasn't to bad either. I lay on the bed fiddling around with our lovely new laptop & watching Andy move around in the tiny space. A b...

Day Thirty-Four Vietnam Here We Come Early start for Andy as he hadn't done any packing whatsoever, I pretty pleased with myself that I managed to do it all last night as there was no way two of us could be moving around & trying to pack at the same time in our small room. Lovely English cornflakes for breakfast & the milk wasn't to bad either. I lay on the bed fiddling around with our lovely new laptop & watching Andy move around in the tiny space....

Day Thirty-Three Avenue of the stars, Lantau Island & the Symphony of Lights Show Bright & early start, we had lots to do & lots of ground to cover today. It was a shame about us missing our first day in Hong Kong due to the bus in China because we would have liked to have explored for longer. The plan of action was to go & see the Avenue of Stars, go to Lantau Island & go to the Po Lin Monastery to see the big Buddha, explore the fishing vi...