Rob and I have just returned from our two day tour of Halong Bay. An absolutely beautiful area full of fantastic rock formations and gorgeous scenery. We stayed overnight on a trunk boat and visited a huge cave, kayaked around the rocks and even tried our hand at fishing off the back off the boat (our bamboo cane with string and a bit of chicken on the end didn't attract anything but the rope attached to our boat!). We met some lovely people, took a tonne of p...

Good morning!It's 12:21am here in Hanoi and after a short sleep my body is telling me there isn't going to be any more anytime soon.Rob is peacefully sleeping away (well jell) and I wish I was too.....Our first experience of Hanoi has been interesting.We took a taxi from Hanoi airport that dropped us off in what felt like was the middle of a very busy main road and the driver pointed roughly to where we needed to walk to find our hotel ("What, down there and tu...