Saturday 17th November Our tour guide arrived this morning on time, checked our names against her booking sheet, on which I happened to notice that the word 'Luxury' was missing from the boat name. They had us down for the less fancy sister boat which I immediately questioned. She played dumb, the guy that sold us the tickets was saying it's fine just go, which got my back up. Now I'm not known for having a larey streak ;) but they were starting to piss me of...

Friday 16th November So we arrived in Hanoi & a driver was stood waiting with a name sign to collect us & take us to our hotel. The sign read: 'Matt & Brett Foreva.' See Brett decided to tell the guy his surname was Foreva & Suzanne had no idea we had arranged this so it was priceless to see her reaction when she stepped off the bus. Brett has a bit of history with bogus names, he was in 2 Australian newspaper articles under the name Brett Mco...

Tuesday 13th November Hi everyone, this should only be a short one as we have only spent 2 nights in Hue. The bus journey was pretty standard. We did get a pretty old bus, but considering we paid $4 for a 4 hour journey, we can't complain. Our first impressions of Hue, weren't great. It just seems to be a town with a lack of atmosphere. Our reason for visiting was to see the Citadel and do the DMZ Tour (Demilitarized zone) which we heard were really good. A...

Saturday 10th November We arrived in Hoi An bus station at 7am & got a free taxi to a hotel that we didn't fancy staying in so got breakfast in a little cafe & discussed where we wanted to stay. Berg & I found a little hotel for $8 per night, Brett & Suzanne opted for a little luxury at $20 per night but their room would cost hundreds per night if it were in London! We took a mid morning stroll around the old town, basically a square with lo...

Sunday 4th November Hello once again! So after the most comfortable journey yet on the back of a luxury sleeper bus, we arrived in Nha Trang, South East coast of Vietnam. It was dark when we arrived & we were being hassled by accommodation touts as soon as we stepped off the bus. We followed one just to shut him up & he took us to a newly built 12 storey hotel one street back from the beach, called Nice Swan. It's $15 per night per room & it's b...