COCKTAILS AT SUNSET DAY 55: Mui Ne Our bus picked us up at about 8am in Nha Trang for the five hour journey to Mui Ne, Vietnam's other, quieter, main beach resort. We were really hoping for some sun now. The journey was fairly boring but it did give us an opportunity to see rural Vietnam and some fairly remote places. It's amazing how self-sufficient people can be in their own communities. When we finally arrived at Mui Ne we checked in to a lovely hotel ac...

CRAZY KIM'S, NOT SO CRAZY DAY 54: Nha Trang Not a lot to write about today. We had a very leisurely day planned which started off with breakfast and a few cups of tea on the front. It was warm, but still very overcast so we went and sat on the beach to chill out under the clouds, as you do when you're English. After we'd been thrown off a private beach, we went for lunch at the Sailing Club (having already been there earlier in the morning for a cuppa) befor...

NO-TAN NAH-TAN IN NAH TRANG DAY 53: Nha Tran Surprisingly managed to get a bit of proper sleep for about two or three hours on the bus throughout the night, but at 4am I was wide awake as we were coming down a steep cliff face in the pouring rain with loads of other heavy vehicles on the road. We kept stopping to either pick up or drop off people or packages of some sort. I'm not sure what, but it looked like they were running a 'special courier' service as w...

THE GREAT VIETNAMESE COOK-OFF DAY 52: Hoi An We checked out of our hotel and were disappointed to leave. The staff at Nhi Nhi Hotel in Hoi An are superb. We were made to feel very welcome, they can and will do anything for you and it was a real pleasure staying there. And they, like all other locals, call me Nah Tan, which is quite funny. We then went for our final fitting (all good and very happy by the way) before heading to our Vietnamese cooking class. T...

NICE ONE, MY SON DAY 51: Hoi An and the temples at My Son Alarm goes at 4.20am. Not funny. We were being picked up by our taxi and tour guide at 5am to make the hour or so journey to the temple ruins at My Son and the best time to see them is early in the morning before the crowds turn up in their thousands. It was really dark in the hallway as we left our room, not even an emergency light to help, then all of a sudden we heard a loud 'DING DONG'. In an attem...