Up at half 8 for breakfast, staff were lovely here they loved us how loud and boisterous we were in the dining room. Packed our stuff up and headed to 'Mr Tony' our main man with the bikes. Bas had to change a tyre but apart from that we were good to go! Fully anticipating these bikes would break down a lot over the next month but Bas broke down just 5 minutes into the journey ha! His accelerator cable snapped. Took ages which we were puzzled about until he came ...

Early start as the air con conveniently stops at 7am so the room was BOILING. Me and Bas went upstairs on top deck before we breakfast an hour later. A lot of waiting around and then we had brunch at half 11 before going to main land to our bus which was taking us to Hanoi. Slept most of the way on the bus, stopped off for something to eat and bought a book about a guy who wrote his story after serving 13 years in a Bangkok jail for heroin trafficking which I cou...

Woke up in our lush beach house around 9 then had breakfast. Weren't leaving till 1 so was in the sea and taking our time with things really. Brunch at half 11 and then set off in the boat at 1 to the national park to start our trekking. This trek didn't sound hard but the heat and amount of steps was a killer but the views were so worth it. Right at the top of the mountains our tour guide was knackered at the end of it he couldn't even go even further like we di...

Nice early 5.45am start to get the bus from Hanoi to Halong Bay. Didn't get to sleep till gone 2 so we were all chuffed to hear our alarms going off. Went to see our mate Sidney at the travel agency bit of a legend to be fair making sure we all had everything etc. Had one of them moments where you recognise someone on your travels and it was a guy from Oz called John I was at Koh Phangan with last month over the full moon party week which was cool! So many times ...

Woke up on and off at around 12pm those beds were amazing in our upgraded room my days! So comfy I couldn't get out of bed. Chilled out day today I met up with Laura, Bas, Guus and Willem as I was just sparked out when they left for breakfast and then in main Hanoi. Had a walk around the city the roads are seriously mental here need eyes EVERYWHERE. I found a phone shop finally and ended up getting a iPhone 5 for just over 5 million dong (£155) hoping that a iCl...