I'm back! Still not 100% but better. So we are now in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City if you like after a short flight from Hoi An. It's a little bit like Hanoi only the streets are wider and the traffic isn't as bad. We went to the Sheraton that night to go to the sky bar which had a great view of the city. Shame I wasn't allowed to drink though! The next day we did the Cu Chi tunnels which were interesting but it was really hot and I wasn't feeling too great. I st...

So after our visit to the Doc in Hue we drove to Hoi An. Luckily we stayed at this hotel for three nights so Tom could recover from his measles! Well we checked in and Tom went straight to bed were as I went for lunch with the group and a bit of a tour round the city. We ate at this place called Bale Well recommended by plonely planet as it said on the side! We sat down and did not have a menu, the girls just brought the food out straight away, pork skewers, spri...

Hello Followers. It is me Rikki writing today! Well since we got back from Halong Bay Tom has been very ill...(read on) Although at first we thought it was just a headache from a few buckets in Hanoi it turns out it was not!! With a high fever and sweats the whole shabang all Tom needed was an overnight sleeper train to Hue. A cramped cabin with 4 bunk beds that barely fit poor Tom on!! His illness did not pass. We arrived in Hue yesterday morning, the tour inc...

From Vientiane we flew to Hanoi, Vietnam, which took about 55 minutes. Hanoi is so loud compared to Laos and everybody seems to shout at each other whereas in Laos everyone was peaceful and quiet. We arrived late afternoon to the hotel so by the time we had dropped our bags off it was dark. The traffic is awful with a bike coming at you in every direction and beeping its horn at you. We had an early night as the next day we were driving to Halong Bay, which woul...