Get up after a cleaner accidentally rings my doorbell. Didn't realize I had one. Another huge breakfast but they seem to remember what I ate and double the fruit. 2 baguettes, croissants and buns. They test a yogurt on me.I meet Emma and we hire mopeds from the rental shop next to my place. Only 100000 dong (£3). Pick up a few litres of petrol at the end of the road for just over a quid. The better beach is called An Bang and around 6km away. According to...

I get up, amused at my room. There are 3 beds in it and until I slept in one, each having fluffy toys on them, towels shaped like swans, a cupboard with dressing gowns, a dressing table with a hairdryer. Oddly it was one of my choices when checking Emma's guidebook and Thinh by chance has brought me to one of the better priced guesthouses. I head up to the top floor for breakfast at the Hoang Trinh hotel. A nice view from the top floor overlooking a ...

Set my alarm for 7:30am. I'm still ill but double the dosage of Imodium and anti sickness pills. Thinh, the smiling monk driver turns up after my breakfast of a bread roll. The only food I can get down me. We have a second driver Tuic and we pick up a cheery London girl called Emma. Just glad to be making the journey, we are on powerful Honda bikes and make our way out of the city. We pass fish farms on the outskirts and eventually break to a large lak...

After the 14 hour journey, I'm not feeling well. I hear a few other people with similar issues. I grab a moto, being taken to the drivers choice of a hostel in the centre called Ngoc Hung Hotel. I don't have the energy to find somewhere and accept the touts waffle. He is going for the hard sell and asks to meet me at 9am for breakfast. I decide to listen as at least I will find out what Hue has to offer. The room is an old fashioned Vietnam guestho...

I am up for breakfast, the Irish girls in my dorm had joined the pub crawl last night so I can relate to their fairy elephant entrance in the wee small hours. Made me laugh as the constant "sshhhhh, don't wake Peter up", woke me up. I am booked on the 6pm bus to Hue which will take 14 hours. I sit with some guys over breakfast discussing our adventures and head to explore the city further. I find the old city gate and the old theatre, photographing the busy s...