First of all I just wanted to say thanks so much for all of my messages - keep them coming as it is great to hear what you are all up to!! We are now in Saigon! (AKA HO Chi Minh City). Arrived yesterday lunctime and we were all exhausted after our last night in Hoi An. Had an interesting night filled with dancing on the pool table (not while the game was being played!) sampling several buckets of 'King Kong's super strong bucket!' and then the night ended with o...

Well we are still in Hoi An and have had such a great but exhausting time. Yesterday morning we hired bikes (you think we would have lerant our lesson after last time!) and rode to the beach. I managed to crash into the back of a truck and smiled at the driver then rode away very quickly! The beach was lovely and was not how I expected a beach in Vietnam to be - not sure what I was expecting. We then rode back to the tailors and collected my dress which is really...

Right well it has been a fun couple of days. We left Hanoi on Sunday night and we got on an overnight train to Hue which was so luxurious and we had a mad French couple trying to swap rooms with us as they liked our room better. Managed to get some sleep although got woken up at 6.30am by opera singing blasting out of the speakers! Arrived in Hue early on Monday morning and it was pouring with rain. We had a 6 hour motorbike ride in the rain (finally found a plac...

Hi well it has been a few days since I have added a blog as the internet access has been crap in Vietnam!! I still can't get used to being a millionaire here - 1 and a half million Vietnamese Dong is 50 pounds!! We left Ninh Binh on Thursday morning and luckily it stopped raining. We arrived at Halong Bay harbour at lunchtime which was filled with boats and tourists. Our boat was too big it couldn't enter the harbour so we had to get a smaller boat out to it. The...

Ok so we are now in Vietnam and it is very rainy!!! Yesterday we stayed in a local village in Hin Boun for our last night in Laos. It was so lovely (very noisy with chickens, dogs and people!) and the food was great. We had a boat trip on the river when we arrived and the boat was made of a fuel tank from a bomber plane in the war! We passed a lady in a boat who gave the driver a bag of eels and then I started praying that was not going to be our dinner. Was ve...