So the train arrived at 5.15 am this morning - the sun was just rising and the city was beginning to come to life. We decided to walk to the hotel we stayed at last time as it was really cheap which took 30minsto get there, and on arriving they told us they were full - on hindsight we should have booked it when we stayed last time but we didnt think of that, so we ended up in a hotel across the road. We slept until 11am then wandered around the city again. We w...

So we were tyrekking through Hanoi with guide book in hand heading to find a hostel - the one we wanted was fullso we plodded on to another- room wasnt amazing but we stopped anyway, dumped our bags and headed to a cafe to grab a drink. As we were sitting there it started to rain, then it got heaveir and ended up being a full blown thunder storm, the street outside quickly turned from a road into a river, and we thought it was bad in Hue. This time the river ca...