26th March up early for a motorcycle tour and it was great we were pillion riders, going into the countryside seeing well kept paddy fields and stopped at a Village market with an interesting assortment of vegetables and live animals for sale (I won't put you off you're dinner by saying what they were). Then on to a Nunnery, which many years ago a nun opened the shutters to see a newly born baby wrapped in blankets at the front of the nunnery since taking this ch...

23rd March had a coach ride to Hanlong Bay, to board our overnight boat and it was lovely we had a very nice cabin with shower room/toilet. It's a beautiful place with 2,000 islands but busy with 1,000s of very noisy Chinese tourists (they drink to much) after dropping anchor we took a smaller boat around some of the islands and a beach with 450 steps to the top of the rock with stunning views but no sun to see settling (shame). Next morning, walked through a hug...

21st March, our flight to Vietnam was delayed by 2 hours (boo) Hanoi is unbelievably mad, the amount of mopeds, motor bikes and bikes as well as cars and pedestrians is mind boggling but great fun and we've really enjoyed it. 22nd visited Ho Chi Minhs Mausoleum (he died 1969) to view his body and he looked pretty good for being dead for 48 years, they re-embalm him every year. In the afternoon we enjoyed a water puppet show with lovely live music and a bit of sho...