Just arrived back from Sapa by overnight train at 6am this morning. Had an amazing time! Left Hanoi on Thursday night and took overnight train to the mountains of Northern Vietnam, a small town called La Cai. We thne went by bus for an hour and a half way up into the mountains - quite a scary journey on tiny roads with sheer drops to each side. The scenery was amazing though, most beautiful place we have ever seen. Arrived in Sapa town and were immediately surr...

Went to Le Pub again last night and met a girl from the Mull of Kintyre! Lewie and Tess got their usual warm welcome and celeb treatment - the staff randomly hand out shots of weird spirit/fruit juice mixes to the customers, last night they made two non alcoholic ones for the kids and Lewie's pal took him into the kitchen to serve up their ce cream. Went to the Museum of Ethnology today which is all about the ethnic tribes of Vietnam. Saw some amazing houses - l...

Just arrived back in Hanoi after 3 days at Halong Bay which were incredible. Had 4 hour bus journey to Halong City then got on our Junk boat - me and kids, 2 older couples from France, Aussie's Bernie & Mary who were in 30s, canadian couple plus 2 french canadian girls. Really nice group of people. Started our sail out to Halong Bay and had a huge luch of lots of different seafood - none of us knew what half of it was but it was delicious. Lewie and Tess jus...

Went out for dinner last night to a place called KOTO (know one, teach one), a restaurant which trains street kids/kids from remote villages. They go through 2 years training before graduating to working in the restaurant or teaching at the school. Had a fantastic meal - Tess had fish n chips (not very Vietnamese but the fish was amazing), Lewie had pork with a kind of bbq/nutty sauce and couscous in filo pasty and I had chicken & lemongrass skewers with kaff...

Day 1 Flights were great, all on time etc but very very long day - by Seoul to Hanoi we were truly sick of being on planes and in airports! Had 3 and a half hour wait in Seoul airport - ended up in Dunkin Donuts of all places! Pakistani man took a shine to Lewie - didn't want to speak to us girls! Wanted to know "what business' Lewie's dad was in and whether he loved his father more than his mother! Said that as soon as he saw us he knew we were Scottish b...