Wednesday, 4th November Very early start and the sun shone all day which is always the way when you've got to sit on a bus. Got to Saigon (Hoh Chi Minh City) just after lunch, Ben and I went for a wonder to find somewhere for us all to stay while the others waited with the bags. The cities not as busy as I thought it would be, but after Mumbai and Hanoi we weren't that fazed. Went for dinner and got a memory stick so we can put our photos on, if we can find a co...

Thursday, 29th October Early start but were looking forward to getting to Mui Ne, It doesn't disappoint. The beach is beautiful, we saw the sand dunes on the way in which we'll take a trip put to while we're here. Went straight to Jibes bar to get away from the hagglers, and to see where we were and where we wanted to stay. I stayed with the bags and Tom went for a wonder and found a cute bungalow right on the beach. It's $15 a night but when we were paying $12 ...

Tuesday, 27th October The night bus was ok, Nha Trang seems nice, found an alright hotel with a great roof terrace. Had a wonder along the beach which is really clean and bumped into Ben, Anya and Layla, all went to the Louisane Brew Housewhich has a great pool and makes it's own beer, what's not to like. We all met up later on for drinks at the red apple then went to the green apple for supper, I had the nicest carbonara I've had in ages and Tom's 4 cheese pizz...

Friday, 23rd October Our already long 18 hour bus journey turned into 24 hours when the bus broke down 1 1/2 hours outside Hanoi, then seemed to stop every half an hour until we eventually got to Hue. We had obviously missed the connecting bus but were pleased when the next one was a sleeper. We got into Hoi An at 6pm and went straight to the Hoa Binh hotel, quick shower and unpack then off to my birthday restaurant which was lovely, flood waters back up over th...

Packed up and met up with Jules, went for a beer then the Green Tangerine for a posh lunch, Jules' friend Lisa is going out with Will Hall from Uplands so have now met someone who knows someone we know, wondered how long it would take. Jules' other friend Sheryl lives in Singapore and said we could go and stay which we might well do. Got the night bus back to Hoi An.