Well a different destination for us, we decided to leave hue and head northwards to hanoi. The plan to go to Laos for the next couple of days seemed a great idea but in fairness this was too short a time to do the country justice. So we caught the train here from hue sharing our 4bed cabin with 5 other vietnamese people...First there was two (sons) then alone came Mum then 10 mins later Dad and finally good olde Granny, our cabin turned into their own home. Sme...

Phil is currently sorting out some train tickets and as his spelling and grammer is sooooo much better than mine this blog will be updated shortly............so watch this space!

Here we are in HoiAn and several Dong, dollars or pounds lighter(whatevers your tipple) due to the fact that there are several(100 ) tailor shops in town and like a kid in a sweet shop we have to have something of everything! Michelle is now looking forward to getting home and wearing her two coats and four shirts, me being the conservative shopper resisted with two shirts. Shopping aside Hoi An is a historic crumbling colonial town.. gone are the book sellers f...

What a difference a day makes.... Its a shame that we've booked our bus to HoiAn so soon, cos we made contact with the "easyriders" in the morning and probably would have taken a 4day tour to HoiAn instead of the bus. Nevertheless they done their job well as we had 7hours to kill so caught a ride with them and visited some sites out of town.

Well as we predicted the storm beat us here!! Abit of a shame cos this is a top spot for diving/snorkling and visiting islands in the south china sea, but its not gonna happen for us!! Unless we fancy re-gurgitating our noodles n rice on the high seas.. At least we picked out a nice photo even if we can't fool you.. So any suggestions what to do? Even the Lying Planet is beat'n when it comes to pissing days. Interesting ride to here though on the "dorm bus....