GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!! After moving to a new hotel nearby featuring unused towels and clean sheets, we were all set for a new start in Vietnam and ventured cautiously into the Old Quarter with fellow journey from hell survivor Mima. Spent breakfast practising the newly introduced 'Brace, Brace, Brace' airline crash position for readiness to deal with the never ending stream of sellers. Slowly but surely with the help of 6p beer* our powers returned, but taki...

So finally arrived in Vietnam in one piece despite THE journey from hell!! Forget cushty flashpacker style travelling, now we can officially call ourselves professional travellers after we left Laos at 6.30am only to arrive as broken people in Hanoi at 1.45am....... Our planned itinerary was supposed to be another straightforward jaunt into a new country but instead it lurched from one catastrophe to another..... The Laos part of the journey featured highligh...