The hotel that we are staying in at the moment has a free bicycle rental service. A lot of people cycle around Hoi An because some parts in the middle of town no cars are allowed. So we decided to make use of this. We borrowed two bicycles and head off in the direction of the beach. It was really nice to be on a bicycle for a change. When we got to the road for the beach, around five different women ran out asking us to park our bikes with them. We rode past them...

We had read a lot about the ruins in My Son which were an hours drive away from Hoi An. A lot of the things we read were about people that had taken a trip from their hotel, they said after the eventually got there they only had an hour to look round which wasn't long enough. Other people had said get yourself there by scooter and you get a lot more time to explore and you get to see the Vietnamese countryside. So we decided today that we would rent a scooter and...

We had a day in at the hotel today, this hotel has a swimming pool and restaurant so it's easily done. More planning and a few sorting jobs which are endless when living out of a bag, got done. We had a Skype conversation with Amy in the afternoon and then mum and Verity in the evening which were awesome.

We got up for breakfast as usual and then went back to the room to start packing. We had a little more to do seen as we hadn't expected to be leaving today. We got sorted and left just before check out time, we went down to settle our bill. It was the same girl that James had to deal with yesterday and as soon as we walked in she seemed offish. She wrote out our bill, James was checking it, she seemed annoyed by this. She had charged us for 2kg more laundry than ...

Well today didn't quite go according to plan. We thought we'd finish planning right up to half way through Thailand where we have things booked already. But we had thought we would ask to stay here for another four nights until our flight to Ho Chi Minh city. We had done a little organising after breakfast then James went down to ask if that were ok and because we would be staying for so long he was going to ask if a slight discount were possible. He was gone qui...