We arose very early to head off and see the sights of Halong Bay, a group of about 3000 islands just of the coast of Vietnam. The minibus journey took 4 hours and after several completely unnecessary stops along the way we arrived at the harbour at about 12. Stupidly, we realised we had booked the tour with the wrong company, as turning up at the harbour we saw groups of lots of Westerners all boarding their boats, laughing and generally having fun. We were with ...

So we grudginly left Nha Trang after our sad final night and flew our way up to Vietnams capital, Hanoi. We booked into a nice hotel and fell asleep straight away, sinking into dreams of our beloved second home :( We awoke bright and early the next day, looked through our Lonely Planet guide at what to do in Hanoi and produced a list of the main sights to see. We flagged down a cyclo driver, who reluctantly took all three of us on his tiny little bike, and set o...

So at half 12 on that fateful night we pile ourselves into a luxury minivan with the best leg room you could ask for and reclining leather seats. We made a quick stop at Highland tours to pack extremely speedily and lightly for the day ahead. We packed to 'essentials' of bikini, suntan lotion, flip flops a skirt and t-shirt. The journey there was eventful to say the least with a toothpaste based conundrum and a mysteriously large belt. We stopped halfway ...

Hey hey people! Sorry sorry sorry for the extreme lack of blogs! We have now come to the end of our stay in Nha Trang and tomorrow we finally move on. However, none of us want to and we are all very sad :( We have been having the most amazing time, one that none of us will ever forget, and we have met some of the nicest, kindest, funniest people you could ever hope to meet. This place has become our second home and we are all already planning our return trip in t...

We arrived in Hoi An after our flight was delayed a further 4 times and we were met by Phils friend Diem who owns one of the many hundreds of tailors in Hoi An, Diem Diem. She took us straight there from the airport and we got to work straight away even though it was close on 9pm, already showing her the many clothes we wanted her to recreate. Our excitement kept on building and by the time we were leaving to go to bed we had a list of ab...