We had breakfast and chilled in our room for this morning, we were told a taxi would pick us up at 8.00pm this evening to take us to the train station. So we thought we'd ask if we could get a late check out, we managed to get the room until 5.00pm, so we thought we'd make use of the time and organise our bags a little better and chill out because I can't imagine we'll get a great nights sleep tonight. We checked out of our room at 5.00pm, left our bags at the ho...

We had made a decision and were going to get our hotel to book the tour for us which would start tomorrow. When we spoke to them the price had changed slightly but James got it back to what it was. After breakfast it felt much better knowing that was booked and we could just enjoy the rest of the day looking around Hanoi some more. We had wanted to visit the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, it was a bit of a walk away but we had all day to do it in. It took around an hour ...

We started today by aiming to have a plan of what else we wanted to do in Vietnam. We had both thought about a trip to Sapa further north but we would have to book a tour. Then we thought about where to go next and how to get there. We spoke to our hotel about the trip to Sapa, they had a booklet with the itineraries which we brought to our room to look over, the prices seemed reasonable. We worked out if we booked one more night at the hotel then go to Sapa whic...

We were up quite early this morning, our email had said that we would be getting picked up from our hotel between 8am and 8.20am so we had our breakfast at the hotel at 7.00am then packed the rest of our things. The email had also said travel light and leave any big luggage at your hotel but we are not coming back to this hotel so we were taking everything. We got a phone call to say they would be picking us up at 7.50am so we then had to rush a little. We got do...

We got breakfast at our hotel this morning then went back to our room to decide what to do today. James had a few bits to do on the computer, we had booked this hotel with a PC in the room so that a few jobs could be done here. Then we started looking at where to go we decided on the Women's museum first, it was about midday by the time we got there. It was great, it had four floors of different parts of Vietnamese women's history, family life including their wed...