I'd received an email the night before about an art lesson at the Lifestyle centre that I could join someone else in doing. I'd wanted to do a whole morning, but there had to be a minimum of 2 people and there was no way Edd would join me for that. I'd left my information with them in the hopes that I could still do the painting class and had received the email I'd been hoping for. I left Edd in bed and went downstairs for breakfast, having my usual banana pancak...

We were given brochures of things to do in Hoi An by our guest house and Edd gave me one that advertised art lessons in the old quarter. We called and they could offer me a lesson on lantern making which started in 40 minutes at 10.30am. I agreed and we went downstairs for some breakfast. 1 banana pancake and 1 omelette later, I left Edd at the guest house and made my way to the Lifestyle Centre.It was a bit further than I'd expected (the maps you were given ...

We woke up from our 3rd overnight train feeling well rested - we were well-seasoned train travellers by now and being on a train no longer kept us awake. The guys we were sharing a cabin with seemed to have little concern and / or awareness of anybody else. One of them had used my bottle of water (each passenger was given one each) to brush his teeth, even though he had a 1.5 litre bottle next to him. I spent the rest of the morning commenting on the water bottle...

We could have done Tai Chi if we'd gotten up at 6.30am. Take note of the choice of words: 'could have' and 'if.' The people that had gotten up at stupid-o-clock-in-the-morning, said it was a bit of an anti climax, only lasting all of 10 minutes. We were glad we'd decided to give it a skip. We joined everyone after 7am for breakfast (which still wasn't vegetarian friendly) and I had 2 slices of toast, again. For a ship that over-catered...

Breakfast time: 7am; 2 x grumpy eaters. Id tried to have a shower but the water was cold, Edd had enquired and the guide had said they'd changed their generators over, so I’d probably tried to shower whilst they did that. This was was after the tour guide asked if he’d turned the tap both ways, he said 'no’ and then followed it with ‘don’t ask me stupid questions.’ Our tour guide seems to be in the habit of it. Edd and ...