After an amazing trip and almost 5 months of not seeing my boyfriend Mark or my family it was so great to see them waiting for me at Heathrow arrivals. Mark had flowers for me and mum had a huge bar of Cadburys...mmmm...Welcome Home x

We left Ha Long Bay early and head back to the Hanoi on an extremely chaotic road. This road was so bad that we saw a moped accident; a bit morbid to say but I saw blood and a chalk outline of the body and there was money all over the road, which apparnetly the Vietnamese do to wish them well in heaven. There are apparnetly on average 30,000 people killed on moped every year in Vietnam, whci doesn't suprise me when you see how many of them there are. Phil (our t...

We arrived into Hanoi on the night train at 4am, again half asleep as we loaded ourselves onto another mini bus at the station which took us on a three hour journey to Ha Long Bay. The weather was a bit dissapointing; very cold and cloudy. We had a bit of a sleep in the hotel (in our giant room) before boarding our Junk boat (the word 'Junk' not doing the boat any justice). It was such a lovely boat and all the tables were laid out for lunch for us. We were ser...

I had a great catch up sleep and woke up early to go for a swim. Took a mini bus to our next destination 'Hue'. This trip was through the mountains and there was a dramatic drop in temperature during this journey. We stopped near the top of the mountain in a place called the 'Hai Van Pass' where there were U.S Army bunkers form the war. It was very foggy and very eery up there. As we reached Hue the derop in temperature became more obvious as all the locals wer...

After a shocker of a sleep (man hawking with his throat all night, creaky train, bumpy train tracks) I felt really refreshed when I woke up...not!!! We arrived in Denang (a big station near Hoi An) then drove for an hour to Hoi An. First impressions...very quaint little place and very much my kind of town with little narrow streets, hanging lanterns and colourful boats on the river. We went for lunch and I had something called 'Ban Xao' (pancakes you wrap yours...