So we spent the large majority of yesterday in the tailors again for our 'final' fittings. We were there so long I felt like it basically became our second home! Our first fitting lasted 2 and a half hours and before we knew it we were in another tailors with people buying more dresses, Flo and I abstained this time of which we were proud!! After eating lunch at lightning speed, we stupidly though we could fit in a 3 hour cycling tour before our next fitting, we ...

Hullo :) well the night bus was interestingg that's for sure but whilst I managed to get two seats to myself and could curl up quite nicely, poor Tess didn't and unfortunately wasn't quite as comfortable. Ever smug, I slept practically the whole journey but when we arrived in Hoi An at 7am the following morning we were still very glad to tumble into a soft bed for a few hours! Once we were alive and kicking we set off for breakfast in the town and despite the i...

So after surviving the night train we took a nice short nap before heading across the road to the beach. We slept and read on the beach and braved the humungous waves to cool off in the sea. All in all it was a highly successful morning with very few people getting burnt... In the afternoon we headed to the mud baths which were great fun although it did feel a tad strange to be bathing in mud. Ah well, we're hoping it has done lots of good to our skin! We spent t...

Well firstly my clothes were actually pretty dry when we woke up yesterday morning so I'm taking my washing as a success...and secondly we survived the crazy Ho Chi Minh traffic unharmed :) have never been anywhere so crazy but we eventually got used to boldly stepping out into streets 6/7 lanes wide, stuffed with motorbikes, vans and buses, in order to enjoy a great day at the CuChi Tunnels which the Vietcom used during the Vietnamese war. Tunnels were flabberga...

Made it to Vietnam!! After the ridiculous visa formalities prior to our departure we were expecting the slog into Vietnam to be hot, busy and far too thorough..it was however a breeze! It was the 9 hours on a bus to our homestay in Chau Doc that was the killer. Tess and i usually work quite well with me by the window and her with plenty of legroom in the aisle but this bus seemed to have been made for the seven dwarfs rather than 16 fully grown (Yes i do count!!)...