Today I woke early to the sound of the breakfast buffet being set up, I didn't realise till later but our window opened up on to a small area over the pool and adjacent to the breakfast room so all noise echoed up to our room... This wasn't helped by the typically loud Vietnamese families outside our room who seem to rise with their children at the crack of dawn, ensuring everyone else rises to due to their screeching. Not long after I woke Steven opened his eye...

Today we woke early to the theme tune of 'Game of thrones' blaring... Still gave us a fright but better than the last choice. We were heading back to DaNang today but wanted to get breakfast in first, the girl in the cafe yesterday said that the buses came by at seven am, ten am and two pm. We thought we would get the ten am bus as it would allow us some time for breakfast plus we could get there early incase it decided to turn up at another random time ....or ...

After our frustrations with the somewhat 'tight' meal servings we have experienced here, we were craving a decent fill. We both spotted a buffet breakfast on offer from a hotel restaurant nearby and we agreed to check it out in the morning. We both woke up rather peckish and I decided to head our first to assess the worthiness of this so called buffet. On first inspection it looked rather good, different breads, fruits, rice/noodles, freshly made omelettes, bacon...

The morning demonstrated Laura's inability to deal with the local spirits as she was evidently struggling. It had been a really good night, meeting some awesome people but the local brew will always come back and bite you in the arse. As you can imagine, the morning was a non starter with us both drifting in and out of consciousness. I made the attempt to catch up with the blogs which were ever more falling behind us. The Vietnamese staff in this hotel seem to h...

After lying in longer than planned we eventually got up and headed out to rent our bicycles for twenty thousand dong next door to our guesthouse. After checking them over we headed north towards one of the beach areas around Hoi An known as An Bang. The traffic was light here so you did not have to worry about motorbikes coming at you left, right and centre. The way was flat and we were soon riding amongst the flat rice fields which looked very dry and barren at...