Met Billy in the morning and went to the Hanoi Hilton museum. Where US pilots were imprisoned during the Vietnam war and also used as a prison during French colonial rule. It was a little bit of a let down, as it was made out to be almost a holiday camp for the pilots, and was completely unrepresentative of what it was like during the war.We had lunch at a highlands cafe, a western style coffee chain out there which serve food, this particular one was in what was...

We had a good lie in before meeting Billy for lunch and had a long journey but eventually found an amazing Vietnamese street food restaurant on the side of a street. It claimed to make the best milkshake in Hue, and so we all couldn't resist. The PhoBo was amazing as was the chili chicken. We were back at the hotel in plenty of time to get to the train station for the start of a long 14 hour train ride to Hanoi.

Picked up our tailoring before our coach ride to Hue, the old political capital of Vietnam.We had another motorbike tour in the afternoon to a pagoda (temple) and some ruins of an ancient colloseum, where royalty were the only ones allowed to watch an elephant fight a tiger which had had its teeth and claws cut out, so the elephant, the symbol of their royalty would win. We also saw a woman who made the rice pickers hats, despite the fact she had been born missin...

Woke up for breakfast, then rented bikes, with Billy and two English girls on tour and cycled the 4km to the beach nearby. Relaxed and tanned for a while and swam in the sea before lunch. Headed back around three. Ricky's chain broke about 200 metres into the journey back so Lucy sat on the back of her own bike while Ricky pedalled and held his bike out to the side. 3km later we arrived back to the smiles of Billy and the other two English girls, it was surprisin...

Woke up for breakfast, then rented bikes, with Billy and two English girls on tour and cycled the 4km to the beach nearby. Relaxed and tanned for a while and swam in the sea before lunch. Headed back around three. Ricky's chain broke about 200 metres into the journey back so Lucy sat on the back of her own bike while Ricky pedalled and held his bike out to the side. 3km later we arrived back to the smiles of Billy and the other two English girls, it was surprisin...