We slept well, and didn't crash into each other in the night, with 2 double beds for the four of us. Although we seem to all have different tollerances for the aircon. After breakfast we rented out 4 motorbikes-come-mopeds, not really sure what they were, though they were manual, so that took a little bit of getting used to - but only one crash by Julia, but that was just a bit of static blunt force trauma to the leg. We moped down the main street and found a l...

This morning we got up early and rushed around packing and grabbing breakfast before boarding the bus to Mui Ne - a well known but not too touristy coastal resort 4-5 hrs East of Saigon. There was of course a detor to stop off at a food place for toiletting and purchasing of vegetable crisp things which all tasted a bit like soil. When we thought we were arriving it was overcast and wet, but then we drove through to the apparent micro-climate of Mui Ne where it w...

Today we got up early, I had a mashed banana sandwich for breakfast and we headed down to see Kim's friend's friend's brother's friend to catch the bus to the Cu Chi tunnels. These are a huge network of tiiiiny tunnels arranged in 3 levels under the ground in the Cu Chi area of Saigon in the south towards the cambodian border. They were used by the Viet Viet Cong guerrillas as hiding spots, places to leap out and shout surprise, and as communication and supply ro...

Soooo from the beginning... We met in Heathrow at half 10 ish and faffed about with the checkin. First with the self-checkin machines which took forever and half of them didn't work and then they sat us miles apart from each other and we had to queue up anyway. Then with the super-grumpy checkin clerk who was not having a very good time talking to us, but did checkin our bags, but did also sit us all miles apart. The guy behind us was checking in box after box of...