1st Jan cont.. You may be wondering what the Great Wall of China has to do with Hoi An-- well I'm just bored with the selection as there are no stock shots for Vietnam. Ann didn't fair to well as the day progressed as is a very poorly girl. Whilst amusing my self on the slowest computer I've known, the young girl from the lamp shade shop turned up to let me know the shade is going to be to big to send by post, and I will have to collect on the 3rd. So...

29th Dec cont..........off for dinner we head towards the river to find the tide is extra high and has flooded the road putting us off our first choice of restaurant, so we head back to the Cargo Club where we are approached by a girl who says " You're Marc Bridgens dad, I was having a drink with just before Christmas and he said you were travelling"--she also mention Marc was very very drunk, at which point I asked "but did he have his clothes...

27th Dec cont . Check out of hotel at 3pm to check in to the English pub for a great shepherds pie to set us up for the journey ahead. Brak neck taxi ride down the pass to Lao Cai to get the train back to Hanoi arriving 5.30 in the morning 28th Dec. Checked back into hotel to clean up & rest before catching our flight to Danang at 4.30pm as we couldn't face another day of crazyness in Hanoi on the street. Taxi from Danang to Hoi An was quite an adventure ...

25th December 2006 Christmas DayWell sorry the journal is taking so long to update but with all the problems we have had out here with the internet because of the damage to underwater cables this is now the third time I have entered this log and hope to complete it before everything crashes and I lose the copy. Arrived at Lao Cai at 6:30am feeling rather cold and juddery after the train journey,caught a mini bus to Sapa a 45 minute ride through the mountains. The...