Hoi An Ok, so I haven't been very well of late and the blog has suffered as a result. I will do my best to try and get things back on track, but I apologise if it is very brief and remains a tad behind. Hoi An is a lovely little town a few Km from the coast. The place has lots of old French style buildings that seemed to have avoided destruction in the wars and most of them are now tailor shops! The town has more than 200 tailors and tourists flock here to have...

Hue to Hoi An (Motorbikes!) I did not sleep so well. I woke up about 6.30 in the morning, excited and nervous about the prospect of not only riding a motorbike for the first time, but riding it all the way to Hoi An (140km). My test drive was at 8.00, so I tried to distract myself with breakfast and computer. Eventually the time came. A man turned up with a black automatic scooter and I sat on the back as he explained the controls. Turn the key (yeah, yeah),...