Hey everyone. Good few days, and I got pickpocketed.

So I arrived in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It's seems like a cool place and the language is much easier to speak than others because it has a Roman alphabet.

Bus trip was fine except I got help up at immigration. They charged me extra I argued about but then just paid because it was 2000 dong (like 1 pence...)

Got to my hostel and its awesome. Just backpackers. About 40 of us. Ended up meeting 2 people from Wakefield and a group of us went on this night out to watch the FA Cup final with loads of Pompey fans so the atmosphere was awesome.

Then went to another bar and played pool, then me and this Irish girl called Claire ended up going on a motorbike taxi (you just sit on the back) with this other guy we met...

So including the driver there were four of us all on one motorbike...how stupid was that? It was fun though. The driver was a young guy who kept saying 'Shiiit' everytime we came to a speed bump. When we got there I told him it was fun and he was like "Nonono, not fun".

So we get to this club on the water which you have to walk over this crappy bridge (hard when drunk) to get to it. Me and Claire went for a dance and ended up next to this 3 gay guys...and they were showing it with a lot of thrusting etc...The club was packed and we thought we were lucky to get a bit of dancefloor free...but that was why...

Anyway I'm dancing and I feel my wallet get lifted. I turn round and grab the guy behind me. I started searching his pockets then some guy handed it to me as it was on the floor. The guy dropped it when I turned round I got told. b******. But I got it back so no worries. It can't have fallen out as I felt it go up and out...

Anyway after she spent all her money, Claire ordered another drink and started spending my money, so we ended up getting a motorbike taxi home (only us 2 this time).

Good night in all. Going sightseeing with Claire today...if she gets up. Might go wake her up now...