I don't have any other pics of Hanoi on my phone so here's a plate of carved vegetables! FYI This blog will mainly be a rant. When we returned back to our hotel in Hanoi from our 3 day trip we were shattered and dying to check back in to our hotel and have a shower. We got our bags and went to our room. 5 mins later we got a knock on the door saying they'd put us in the wrong room and we'd have to move. Robin had an argument with the guy but he said we could p...

Ive got a bit behind on the blogs so i cant actually remember what we did the first day in Hanoi, so i'll be brief. Our hotel was nice, well it was pretty similar to halls at uni but it had carpet which is so nice after ages with tiled floors. We spent the day looking around the city, it was nice to be able to walk around as it was dry and sunny. This city is much more laid back than ho chi minh, lots of little shopping streets around a lake. Usual motorbikes b...

There were 5 in a bed and the little one said...'get me off this fricken bus'! We've just had the worst overnight bus journey yet, and I'm tired and irritable - so to be clear, this will be a whingey blog. Yesterday whilst waiting for the bus we spent time in every bar and restaurant down the little street where our hotel was in order to kill time whilst waiting for our bus (we couldn't go further as guess what, it poured with rain all day, AGAIN!). I did the ...