20th October 2009 - 21st October 2009: We decided that we would do a bit of multi-tasking (Sean being a man struggled with this!!) by turning our boat trip to the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam into our transportation to Cambodia. We set off at 8am by bus with our tour guide whose name was Tom - but we could call him Tom Cruise. He explained to us that as long as we were happy he would be happy and that he would treat us like his own family which resu...

18th October 2009 - 20th October 2009: We got a sleeper train this time to Saigon which was a welcome change from the bus. We shared our compartment with an elderly Vietnamese couple and could not bare the thought of them climbing up to the top bunk so after a bit of charades and waving of hands we eventually managed to explain to them that we would like them to have the two bottom bunks and we would take the top bunks instead. We arrived in Saigon on Sunday at...

15th October 2009 - 17th October 2009: The sleeper bus to Nha Trang seemed to be the worse one so far, the roads were very windy and bumpy and we spent what felt like the entire trip wide awake holding on for dear life. However we weren't too worried about our lack of sleep given our plan for Nha Trang was to basically chill out and enjoy the beach for a couple of days. It was also another opportunity for Sean to build up his tan, which unfortunately was still...

11th October 2009 - 14th October 2009: After Hue we took a four hour bus journey down to Hoi An which is very much a sleepy town in Vietnam. Our hotel was absolutely fab, with big clean rooms and a swimming pool - yep, we had really moved up to the big league this time. We spent our first morning lazing by the pool and decided to do some lengths to try and get fit although we are not sure if four lengths in a 10m pool, doing doggy crawl, can be classified as ...

8th October 2009 - 10th October 2009: We got the sleeper train to Hue and shared a compartment with some Italian guys although neither of us seemed to be up for much talking so we all just headed to bed. We were awoken the next morning at 6am by one of the attendants who shouted at us that we were arriving in Hue and should get our stuff together. He was 'shooing' us along to the exit and had the door open and the steps down before the train had even arrived a...