So our bus finally arrived at 9am and we climbed on the typically arrangedvietnam bus - overloaded and bags for africa as the boots are so small, squished in like Sardines we began our 3 hour bus ride with a quick 20minute stop on the way. Again in usual annoying Vietnamese style we waited without an idea for what were waiting for at the dock in Halong to board our boat for 2hours. This was our most annoying wait by far (it meant that we arrived in Cat Ba island ...

After a few sleeping pills later but still not a great sleep we arrived in HAnoi. This place is massive, with tiny streets, way too many mototbikes and over keen puchy sales ladies!!! Free taxi ride to a hotel, $4 a night each and an actual shower cubicle for the first time since melobourne - we took it! We havent read up on too much to do here so we wondered the streets to find some breakfast and then headed to the markets (not that our bags can fit much more i...

Short bus trip today - thank god! we werent feeling a 100%. Found a hotel to stay in that has our own computer with internet in our room, along with a tv and 3 single beds...we made very good use of these all afternoon, only venturing out for lunch and dinner and a meander round town at night time. We found a KFC once a gain, and dabbled in a potato and gravy and fries for dessert...still no sightings of a mcdonalds yet! Booked to go on a tour of Hue for our onl...

We arrived into town and got a hotel - same same as Bradley's one when he stayed here, it has a pool and our room overlooks it - CANNONBALL!!! Well not quite, it is a bit chilly here at the moment so before we tracked off we put pants on for the first time and even took our jerseys with us. First stop - Custom made clothes, Britt ordered 2 dresses, one jacket, pair of boots and sandals; Gravy got 1 high heel, 1 boots, 1 sandels, 1 shirt, 1 jacket, waistcoat and ...

Oh my goodness this is the funniest day yet. So it is an early start everyone feeling mediocer, We are all travelling to Nga Trang today Us, Jus, Christine and Daryn on the same bus and Laurell and her Dad on a 1230pm sleeper bus. To start with our bus left late as it appeared to me having some maintenence issues but we soon got the go ahead to clime aboard. Best bus set up to date. Semi sleeper type seets like lazyboys basically free refresher towels and free wa...