OMG OMG I have just had a bath, after a long day walking, you don't realise how you miss it. It was fab although don't know how I would have got on if I was any bigger couldn't get your arms by your side. Reckon they make the baths for locals, there all so tiny Well have written my blog as the day has gone so here we go. Who booked the trip!!!!!! You never told me I would have a hangover & early start. So a Day trip to see many tombs, we were tombed out ...

It's raining, and muggy, but today we walk around the Purple Forbidden City. It's bit like a city within a city. Which as they did many years ago it was well thought out. After getting a cyclo there which was very funny ,(see pic) sometimes dangerous. You had to close your eyes sometimes with the traffic hurtling towards you. While sitting in the grounds having a coffee we saw Sarah a friend from Takeo wandering around, so we spent the rest of the day catc...

7th December 2011 Arrived in Hue 8.am after an overnight train from Hanoi, what an experience that was. Walked around Hanoi for Jess to see the place(6th Dec) supper then taxi for the train due to leave at 7pm. Stupid taxi dropped us at the wrong place and nobody would help us, we kept saying platform 6 they ignored us so I phoned the hotel bless him he sent someone out. It is now 6.40 and we are panicking. Finally someone pointed to out the station and to go...

Well think my brain was on UK time last night enjoying the most of the 4th as I could. As I was Still awake at 3am this morning. Picture is not a clear one as no flash on the itouch, but my birthday evening. Hardly stimulating but I had a good day. So Monday morning transfer to ferry after early breakfast, hour later transferred back on to the original boat Halong Dragon Cruise for two more hours. Unfortunately the sun isn't shining, or could have worked on th...

Happy birthday to me . Yes today is the 4th December, but it's still the 3rd in UK Yesterday lunch time we boarded a classic wooden boat, 9 adults and 2 children. It's a bit like the river Nile there is hundreds of boats. This time we are 1 English ,1 Swedish girl with Aussie boyfriend, 1 Japanese guy, 2 germans one has his Botswana wife two kids.plus 2 other blokes that I'm not sure as they are continually moaning (Serbia it seems) So quite a mixture. So ...