Today we're Ill! Annie had a sore throat and couldn't speak and I have tonsillitis! We're both in muchos pain and feeling sorry for ourselves today! :( I woke up around 8/9 am but stayed in bed until gone 12! When we eventually woke up, we decided to motivate ourselves by going to eat pasta at Italian bistro, three blocks away... Had spaghetti carbonara and couldn't taste a thing over the foul taste that's constantly in my mouth! What a waste of time walking a...

We arrived on the night bus in Hue, early morning at 7:30am, my body is aching all over from the uncomfortable bus! There was a guy there advertising his hotel when we got off the bus, he said fed drive us to the town for free and we could have a look at the room, of we didn't like it we could leave! We saw the room and it's pretty nice! Very clean quite modern and has wifi, air con, cable tv and mini bar! All for $10? Sold! We had to leave the room so it could...

Checked out of our hotel at 12:00 lunch today, we make sure we check out at the very last minute so we get our money's worth outta the room! Today is our last day in Hanoi and we leave for Hue tonight, so we won't see our friends again for a while, if we do end up coming back! We went to have coffee at Lee's social club with Toni to say our final goodbye :( it was quite sad, we've spent a lot if time with both of them and they're lovely, kind, generous and fun! ...

Today we clearly slept in until well after lunch! Hungover and tired is an understatement! Today I went to get my mop chopped at Toni's salon! He owns a small salon near West Lake, where his clients are mostly expats and speak English! It was odd I thought I would feel right out of place but I felt right at home! Annie didn't feel well at all so she stayed in bed until 5pm and I went to get breakfast with Toni at a French Cafe near his salon. As soon as we order...

Got up at 7:00 today and went for breakfast at our hotel... Dry bread with butter and jam! :( The bus picked us all up at 8:30 and we drove back to the dock! Then took the boat back to Halong city! Took lots of photos of the lush scenery in the few hours we had and we were told we'd not paid for our bus back to Hanoi! We thought it was included but apparently not! Only cost £4.50 though! When we arrived in Halong City, we had 45 minutes to have lunch, the tour...