Up at 9 breakfast then on our crew bus for 10am to go to Hoi An old town for the day. It was amazing just how you imagined Vietnam to be. Lots of pointy hats, street sellers bikes and mopeds ; some Mopeds have families of 3 or 4 on crazy! Went on a little boat trip up the river. Lots of little shops nice restaurants and bars. Had a lovely chilled out day wandering around. Got back to our hotel st 6pm checked out and got a taxi to the house we are sharing with Je...

Had breakfast in our hotel then onto the boat at 9.30 for more maintenance and sail repair. There til 4.30pm In the evening met with our crew for a team meal in a local Vietnam restaurant. Bit odd the only alcohol they had was beer ! No wine ! After the meal we came back to the nov. Hotel and went up to the sky bar on the 35th floor : what amazing views and brilliant music with dancers and fire dancers. Had a brilliant time. It was nice doing something fun wi...

Woke at 8am had such a lovely sleep in my comfy hotel bed. Mind you when I first opened my eyes wondered where I was! Then it was odd getting out of bed felt the need to hold onto the wall, then I remembered I didn't need to as on land now and not the boat! Had breakfast then went to the boat to help with deep clean and sail repair. Jane and Caroline went food shopping for the next race At lunch time found a local food place to eat. Very back street !!! Almost...

Arrival in Vietnam Woke at 4am Lindsey told me there was Phone signal so texted the kids my mum and Carl's mum and dad. Stayed in bunk til 6.30 then got up. Had porridge Carl and Matt on deck I cleared up breakfast bits and managed to wash my hair in the heads ! It was lovely hearing from the children by text will face time them all later x Switched onto Vietnam time which is 7 hours ahead of uk. 2 hours behind boat time Seemed to take forever but we arriv...

Leg 5: race 7: day 30 Woke at 8.30 the wind had picked up so heeled over and going faster. Matt Carl and Caroline on deck. They only needed 3 on deck. Made a pot of coffee and some porridge. Bit overcast today and temperature had dropped. We have been told our berthing time is 1pm (boat time 4pm) going to be doing last jobs on the boat today getting ready to get into Vietnam. I am so looking forward to getting ashore. So today is the last full day and night on ...