Date: 27th June 2011 Place: Halong Bay Weather: Sunny It was a very early start after a very late finish today. I hadn't slept very well either because I was paranoid my alarm wasn't going to wake me up. It took me a while to get Carm up as well, she wasn't having it at all! We had to pack really fast and went down to grab a quick breakfast but it turned out we had to wait for ages to get on the bus anyway. It was a four hour bus journey to Halong Bay f...

Date: 26th June 2011 Place: Hanoi Weather: raining I had set my alarm ready to get breakfast but Carm decided to stay in bed longer. She was feeling pretty hungover! I went down and met a girl called Lilly and Kristie and Carm came down a little while later. After breakfast we went to chill in the room for a few hours and tried to get a bit of sleep in. Instead we were just talking to an Australian couple in there and a Dutch guy called Eric. When we pi...

Date: 25th June 2011 Place: Hanoi Weather: Raining Well our 14 hour bus journey turned into a 17 hour one. Because of the rain I think the roads had flooded or something which meant the bus had to stop for a while. When we finally got to Hanoi we weren't dropped off in the centre either because their time period had gone so we had to get a taxi into the centre. We got to the hotel fairly easily and since we had already booked a room it was all straight ...

Date: 24th June 2011 Place: Hue Weather: Very humid but cloudy Got up for breakfast again but this time it was just a bread roll and jam. We then decided that we were only going to stay here that one night so booked the bus for that night and checked out. We decided we would do everything we needed in that one day and then move onto Hanoi where we wanted to do a lot of things. There is a big supermarket in Hue so we decided to go to find it before headi...

Date: 23rd June 2011 Place: Hoi An to Hue (Hai Van Pass) Weather: Quite cloudy It was an early start today because we were getting picked up by Easy Riders who were taking us on the Top Gear route from Hoi An to Hue. We went the same route to Danang but then got on the Hoi Van Pass which is a really windy road all through the mountains and there are views of all of Danang. It was a really good ride but a shame it wasn't sunnier because I think the views wo...