Today we were to check out and catch the bus to Saigon later tonight, Steven headed out early for some breakfast and this time finally tried the 'Bun cà', which is a fish noodle broth. I in the meantime showered and began the now frequent notion of packing my bag. He soon arrived back armed with an armful of drinks and after enquiring it transpired that he had gone to by to coffees... Iced of course because that's how it goes here, the girl then gave him a free cup of tea as well so we now had a handful of drinks to sip while packing up and chatting over the annoying CNN anchor guy who was getting way to excited about stocks and shares.

After we had packed we headed downstairs and paid our bill, which turned out to be one of the most simplest check outs ever... We walked down and our passports were already waiting so we handed over the six hundred thousand dong payment for our four night stay (£18.44!!!), with no problems and walked off... After saying goodbye to the adorable little girl who has been summing up the courage to say hi for the last four nights. We then headed across the road to leave our bags at the Sinh Tourist office across the road as we wouldn't be leaving till eight thirty pm this evening and didn't fancy carrying our bags around. I have to say the guesthouse we stayed at "Bilies" was probably one of the most honest and nicest guest houses we have stayed at. It was incredibly bright and clean with no dust, dirt or bugs anywhere... Definitely recommended.

After leaving our bags we headed to our favourite cafe where Steven enjoyed a beer... Yes at ten am in the morning, while I sipped a tea. By now I was feeling a wee bit peckish so we finished our drinks and headed to Mrs P round the corner with her rice and chicken. Today I ordered rice with chicken and omelette and Steven rice with pork and omelette. With this came two very nice soups loaded with vegetables as well as some pickled cabbage and sweet chilli sauce.... It was delicious and definitely on my list of top meals in Asia, was so much nicer than the other night. As we went to leave Mrs P had gone somewhere and the women left manning the stall were trying to overcharge us but we stood our ground, as always, then got the right price. She was trying to charge us seventy thousand dong (its aways fifty thousand)... Will always try their luck this lot.

After brunch as we had time to kill, we thought we would try and find somewhere with air conditioning and wifi. We then headed off to find somewhere to chill before we stumbled onto a Parisian type cafe and expected 'out of our budget prices', however they turned out to be really modest. We ordered a black coffee each and were even more surprised when we got a full cup! Very unlike most our previous experiences in Vietnam when servings closely resemble an espresso. We connected to wifi and attempted some streaming which only seemed to work with Game of Thrones. Laura was unable to stream Dexter or Grey's Anatomy, really weird. The afternoon was spent watching some episodes and ordering the odd coffee and making use of the free iced tea we were now being served. Interestingly, prior to this, we noted Viet people were receiving what appeared to be free tea when they sat down. It must have been free because it was given out prior to even ordering anything. The other two westerners and ourselves neither were offered or received it. Us being the 'get all you can' backpacker type enquired and he girl apologetically supplied us with iced tea. This then got constantly refilled, a case of 'you don't ask you don't get', it really does apply in Vietnam.

As the afternoon rolled on, both of us started feeling a little bit groggy. We put this down to 'coffee overload', as we had consumed a little too much rich coffee. There is only so much Vietnamese coffee you can take in one day and we had pushed our luck. The evening set in and we left the cafe after probably out staying our welcome. We stocked up on crisps and bread to make our custom marmite sandwiches and headed to the bus office to chill out.

Laura used the last of the marmite on our sandwiches and we made a short ceremony as it was cast into the bin. Our companion had been with us for five months since Hong Kong and never let us down. After grieving we made a quick stop for our favourite Viet meal 'steak and eggs' and then had to wait for our bus at 8:30pm. Will report how the bus ride was tomorrow, see you then!