A day can really make a difference. For the past few days, being the beach snobs that we now are, we have thought that the Cat Ba beach was OK. But this wasn't just us, everybody we met made a comment of disappointment about the cloudy, littered sea. But we finally understand why Asian people live their life by the lunar calendar. Yesterday was a full moon and it definitely made a huge difference, producing a clear, emerald bay. Making the most of our last day on...

Nothing much occurred today apart from a day at the beach and some good karma. Our act to receive good karma was to offer a couple that we had met one of our books for free. It was only taking room up in our bags and to be honest we were desperate for somebody to lighten the load. The couple seemed over whelmed with "our generosity" and began showering is with freebies for the rest of the day. - free beers at happy hour - free cocktail at happy hour - free ti...

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...