Today was a less successful beach day. The girls weren't so keen on motorbiking the treacherous roads again so we chose a beach that wouldn't be a rip off in a taxi and called for one. The driver was an arse who stopped off ever 5 minutes to chat to his friends and even popped into a garage to have his power-steering fluid topped up whilst we sat eyeballing the meter. He eventually dropped us off in a little village that seemed totally random gesturing that he c...

Today we got up early and had breakfast in the restaurant area with a beautiful view of the sea over towards the Gulf of Thailand, as little green and blue over-staffed fishing boats chugged past dropping and raking in their nets. We rented motorbikes from the staff and got a map of the island to head down to Bai (beach) Sao on the South East side, about a 20 kilom ride. The red clay roads threw dirt up at us as we bounced around over all the pot holes and navig...

This morning the alarm was set for 9, but like s*** were we going to get up for it. Eventually we seemed to wake simultaneously at 11 and thought "what is it we're meant do do today?" at the same time as remembering it was a half 1 flight to Phu Quoc island that we'd forked out for. So of course... panic packing, baby-wipe 'showers', painfully rapid teeth-brushing, speedy check-outs. "TAXIII". The taxi drive to the airport was a daze, check-i...

Today we had a short liein, then after breakfast walked over to the war museum. Here we hoped to piece together a bit better the history of Vietnam with regard to why the Americans were carpet bombing the North the whole time, what's the difference between the Viet Cong and Viet Minh and why did the French and Japanese keep popping back into the scene. The front of the museum displayed the American weaponry and aircraft, with little boards detailing their capabi...

We were rudely awakened by this dreadful Vietnamese guitar music on the train this morning. It was ages before we realised there was a switch to turn it off, and longer before we saw that it was 4am not 5am, so thought we had another hour in bed. So we went back to bed, as in, we lay down rather than sat up, and then promptly arrived. So had a mad scramble again to shove things into bags and get off the train. There were a few cabs waiting around the station, al...