Blog : Hue Arriving back from Halong Bay we had literally an hour to sort our s*** out before catching the 15 hour overnight sleeper bus down to Hue. I went out to try and get a sandwich for the journey as I knew I'd be grumpy if I didn't manage to get any dinner in and also to pick up a vietnese SIM card as I would miss my scheduled Skype date with B so wanted to be able to message him whilst I was on the bus at least... I dragged Sebastian with me because he a...

Blog : More Hanoi and Halong Bay We were a pretty big group when we counted everyone that was keen to go to Halong bay together on the same day. There was Al and I, Christa who we met and travelled with in Australia, Tom from work back at home, the four Liverpool lot from the Thai islands, plus their israeli friend Alona and Helen, Sebastian and Hatem who were all single travellers on our Sapa trek - 12 in total!! It was a bit of a nightmare to try and coordinat...

Blog : Hanoi and Sapa Having left B and our perfect holiday it was back to backpacking for me and I kicked it off in style by sitting on the floor in the airport whilst I waited over an hour and a half for my backpack to come round on the luggage carousel. For ages the only thing that keep coming out of the doorway was electrical goods boxes all tied up and packed, they were the most random things on the whole world! Before leaving Bangkok the girls had said the...