Last night on the sleeper train we finished playing card games and eating food and then I climbed into my sleeping bag liner ready to fall fast asleep. Then came the scream - "MOUSE", Rachel and Sophie who were on the 2 bottom bunks were screaming their head off. I looked over expecting to see just a big cockroach or something not that scary, but sure enough there was a mouse (smaller then a small cockroach). By this time all the rest of the group were all out of...

We got up early yesterday morning to travel a couple of hours to our next destination Hue. Breakfast was amusing in the hotel as Graeme went down in his new silk robe. When we arrived at Hue we checked into our room which was really nice, and then went across the street to a recommended café for lunch. It looked nice at first, until Martins sandwich came out. He'd taken several bites when he realised the bacon was raw inside it. He asked for it to be 'cooked bet...

Today surprisingly Rachel was the first one up as she was so excited that she was picking up her dress. We hired some bikes for the morning (peddle ones not mopeds) and went out on a 3 hour bike tour, this was the most exercise I have done all trip…… make that all year……. Make that in my life. We were told it was right lane driving so we cycled through the town on the right hand side, however I think someone needs to tell the Vietnamese that its right sid...

We awoke this morning around 8:30 ish to get ready on the train for it arriving at 9 am. Then 9 am arrived and we had to wait longer as the train was slightly late, arriving at 12. We then got a coach to the hotel and quickly freshened up before heading to the bar across the road for lunch. Then our tour leader Pooky, wanted to take us into the town and show us a popular tailor shop, but apparently as a tour leader she is not allowed to guide us anywhere so could...

I must start this blog entry by dedicating it to the restaurant we ate in last night (name I cant remember). I ordered the SMALL sea food bucket, 1 beer and 1 large bottle of water. I asked what was contained in the bucket and they listed a range of stuff with rice, I thought it sounded good so I thought I would splash out and get it. The plate arrived and there was about a selection of around 4 different types of shell fish (probably around 15 in total) and that...