We woke and no further was said about the girl at breakfast. I thought we'd hear something but nope nothing. We decided to go for a walk to kill time before getting the bus to Hanoi. We walked and walked... We ended up, a little lost, in a non touristy area but it wasn't scary. People were coming out of their homes to say hello to us as we walked past. It was a little weird but we found out that theirs a tradition on the 1st day of the new year which says the 1st...

We woke today with nothing to do. It's raining, we've seen what we wanted to see so we just caught up on our sleep then Lee researched more on Hanoi and booked our accommodation whilst I updated the blog. We went out for food then sat in the bar drinking 60p beers. There are karaoke bars everywhere (I would love to go in and sing but they're all in foreign) there's never anyone singing usually but today they were on form. It's their New years day so they were sin...

We were woken by the phone ringing. The bus is here for your tour.... We ran around and headed on a bus to the dragon boat. (The girls at the hotel had prepared a breakfast for us to take with us) The dragon boat was the slowest boat IN THE WORLD. It took us to a typical old school Vietnemese house (which we had to pay 30p pp for the privilege of looking at) next stop Thien Mu Pagoda (built from the orders of a king to mark the place where a beautiful woman appea...

We woke in Hoi An and arrived in Hue 5 hours later. Lee passed out on the bus so I was talking to a few girls who worked in Hoi An but lived in Hue. They were heading back home for their New Year Celebration. The girls were talking english to each other, i asked if that was for my benefit but it was because one of the girls was from Sapa (which is still in Vietnam) so they didn't speak the same language. This is why it is so difficult for us to learn even the mos...