It was a sad day today as a nice day relaxing turned out to be the first day in 8 months that we have had something stolen from us. What you ask? Charlottes black havianna flip flops, her pride and joys and a gift from a dear friend. The Incident. Around midday day we sit and brainstorm ideas for Matt's best mans speech, when an old women (staff of the beach resort) begins sweeping the beach around our loungers. She is acting on edge and very peculiar, so much...

This mornings bus, boat, bus ticket from Hanoi to Cat Ba Island made no effort to even attempt a toilet break and the 6 hour journey proved an amazing fete of bladder control. We also managed to catch up with the hopeless players from warrington Ben and Tom who we met weeks ago down south. The follow few days on Cat Ba Island have been planned in order to slow the pace of our Vietnam trip down as we both agree that it has flown by. We hope that by sitting on a be...

We had received some information from someone that the mausoleum in Hanoi is worth a visit. A shrine to Ho Chi Minh himself where his preserved body can be visited, a weird but must visit attraction. So we were told. In search of this year view of a preserved human body, we ended up doing nothing but failing. Fail 1 - We were excitedly rushing round what we thought was the mausoleum to view the preserved corpse. It turns out we had just paid 50,000 dong to get ...

After genuinely feeling lucky to be alive, we got off the death bus in Hanoi at 6am in the middle of a typhoon. Soaking wet we managed to get a passing taxi and go to our hostel. At this point it was impossible to get an idea of what the capital city is like and for once we were able to check in and not have to wait until 2pm. Tired and just wanting to sleep we made our way up ten flights of stairs, bags weighing double as they were wet. Once we got settled and w...

The reason we came to Phong Nha is that we were told by a guy earlier on in our trip that it is a 'must visit' that nobody really knows about. This to us sounded intriguing so we decided to have a day here. The main reason for the stop is to visit the cave systems that are located in the area. Phong Nha is home to the biggest cave in the world - Son Doong. Unfortunately it takes 7 days and $3000 dollars to trek there through the dense jungle, so needless to say w...