Today I finally decided no matter how long it took I would sit at this very slow computer and write the blog. Photos will have to wait though, as technology here is not up to scratch! So last time we were getting the train to Hue. This turned out fine and was actually quite comfy. When we got off the train we were bombarded with people telling us to go to their guesthouse, that theirs was the best and that theirs had a free minibus ride to it - no obligation to ...

Hello, well we arrived in Hanoi on Wednesdaynight about 10pm, got a taxi from the airport to the 'Old Quarter' - it's all French colonial and stuff like that. But it was absolutely lashing it down so we had a quick look around but just ended up spending more than we would of liked for our first night. The next day we found somewhere cheaper and then had a walk around the city. Neither of us like it much, it's really busy and cramped, there's loads of smog and i...