Coming back to the Sheraton Hotel was like coming home, how impressive to be greeted by name in a 300 bed hotel. We arranged for a student guide to accompany us today, we visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the temple of literature, the prison and the B52 museum. It was an unusual day which included a lost lunch order, delaying us in the restaurant for over an hour which meant that Jan was on hand to administer first aid when another diner collapsed and a taxi ...

We left Hue on the 21st travelling by overnight train to Hanoi. It was certainly with less apprehension this time that we boarded the train. Unfortunately the carriage we had was old, grubby and very noisy but we did manage to snatch some sleep rattling in to Hanoi station at 5.30am. Luckily our transfer to our hotel was there as we were in a very dodgy part of town, quickly surrounded by people who gave us the impression they would like to relieve us of our wa...