We took a mini bus to Hue today for 3 hours. Some nice scenery again, but it's raining! Went out for some lunch at Ushi - apparently the owner, who also served us, is famous in Holland and a couple of the people from Belgium who are in our group also know her. She used to present a TV program similar to Denis Penis. It stopped raining, so we thought we'd make the most of it and go see the Forbidden City. It's similar to the one we went to in Beijing but not as ...

Set our alarm for 10am this morning - was awake earlier because of other loud people in the hotel! We pottered around a bit and did a few jobs like cutting my hair. It was about 12pm and Therese nipped outside to see what the weather was like...SUNNY!!! I was so annoyed. It's typical. We didn't have a window so couldn't see outside and just expected it was raining. Typical that we don't have a window to see that it's sunny. We headed out at about 12.15pm to get ...

We had to move hotel today to the Vinh Hung 3 Hotel. It's because we got to Hoi An 2 days earlier than we were supposed to and the hotel that's part of the tour didn't have room for us. The rooms are really nice as the hotel was recently refurbished - just a weird smell though. We did the move at 12 - didn't get up and out early because of the rain again!! 4 of our group went on a tour today but we didn't bother because of the rain. Instead, me, Therese, Dan and...

Didn't wake up until 10.30am this morning! First time we've had a lie in for a while though. And all we could hear outside was rain so we couldn't be bothered getting out of bed! We just sat and watched a bit of a couple of films. We finally got ourselves up and ready to go for a walk into town, at about 1.30pm to get some late lunch. Went to a place called Cargo Club. Food was lovely - had a good choice on the menu with Western as well as Vietnamese food. I had...

...the flight from Ho Chi Minh to Danang (Hoi An) only took an hour - don't really know why they bother with the overnight train! The train is about $25 each, the plane is $50... As soon as we stepped off the plane, the cold hit us!! The temperature is 10 degrees cooler than where we were (we have gone north though) - it's only 22 degrees! Cold. Another 45 minutes on the mini-bus to get to our hotel, and it started raining! Rain ruins everything! Hoi An is a m...