Early start for taxi-plane-bus-taxi 800 miles by 11.00am. Busy morning. We both laughed at the little wall mounted shower head set at Vietnamese height but didn't notice the massive shower head built into the ceiling. Promptly got soaked. Vietnamese plumbers 1, daft westerners 0. Now in nha trang in a rather nice hotel with private beach access, pool, jacuzzi the usual. Went out around 11am and ended up in an Aussie bar called Booze Cruise, only went in because...

Leaving Hoi An today and the sun finally came out - typical. Squeezed in 2 hours by the pool before our waiting driver whisked us to theFinger Hotel Denang. The logo for which repeatedly showed us the finger. Room on the 14th floor which sounds more impressive than it is as hotels indeed all buildings in Vietnam are very thin and have loads of floor. It's to do with a tax on land so every building is squeezed into the minimal footprint. After a tour of various b...

We had an attempt at sight seeing this morning. Went to a Japanese tea house run by the deaf, lovely place, you ordered by pointing and a lot of smiles. Enjoyed Vietnamese coffee and cookie sample plate. (I know coffee in a tea house but neither of us enjoy tea). After the tea house we went for a walk around old town and it started to tip it down. Found shelter in a Vietnamese coffee shop for more caffeine, the coffee's strong over here. David braved the roads o...

Easy day by the pool today. Not sunny but warm and mostly dry. It is nice to have sometime just relaxing and to be honest recover from the night before's fresh beers and the 12 previous days of travel. Looking forward to tonight out in the old town again, Dive Bar is becoming a favourite of ours. Today was a big day for the tannoy system. Tannoys seem very popular here. There's the reading out of the news (we think) sometimes very early in the morning. Then the...

You know that point in Forest Gump regarding rainy season, well we are in it. Rain from above, rain from the side and rain from below. Started last night and we are sitting having breakfast watching it continue to pour. Yvonne wants to sit by the pool under an umbrella but I think she's being optimistic, we will just have to find some other activity to do. The other activity was a pub crawl after we sat by the pool (rained once but we preserved). Went out ar...