Tuesday 29th May We arrived in Hanoi, s***ty mood doesn't even cover what I was feeling, and I did warn Stu so he knew not to wind me up or feel the wrath! Since we not feeling our best the taxi driver took advantage of this fact. We jumped in a taxi, as we were pretty far out of town even though lonely planet reckoned the scale was 500m (my arse it was!) alarm bells went off when he put the bags in front of the meter, but I thought maybe, just maybe, it would b...

Saturday 26th May We packed our stuff up again and checked out and waited around the lobby for our bus to pick us up to go to Hue. A tiny minivan came and we jumped on and got taken to the middle of nowhere, supposedly the 'bus station!' We waited for five minutes and the bus did arrive! We all jumped aboard and were on our way to Hue. It wasn't a long journey about four and half hours, should have been three! We arrived at the bus company office in Hue, which...

Thursday 24th May We arrived, very blurry eyed in Hoi An at 6 am, it was a struggle along with being hassled for motos I was not best pleased. I think I snapped a few times at people shoving flyers in my face, luckily I spotted my name and the name of our hotel and was very pleased to follow the staff member away from the crowd. We stopped in a nearby hotel to wait for their van to pick us up and take us to the hotel. Our hotel was a little out of the old town, ...

Sunday 20th May We woke up and checked out, I had found something had enjoyed eating me last night, and it wasn't mosquitos. Damn bed bugs, never been bitten before my initial reaction was that it was so itchy…all the time! I would rather be eaten by mossies than bed bugs. I counted over 100 bites, with 50 on my right leg and 20 on my face including my eye lid and cheeks. I was not a happy bunny and experienced my second dosage of homesickness; the first was w...

Thursday 17th May We had another early morning, which Stu found hard considering he had no sleep! We had breakfast and waited to be picked up for our first bus in Vietnam. We have heard stories how bad the buses can be sometimes so we decided to by point to point tickets rather than an open tour ticket, a little more expensive but we have more flexibility in choosing who we go with. Vietnam doesn't seem to be short of travel agents that all offer similar trips a...