I could have had a long lie this morning but we both seemed to be awake at 8.30am, which was in good time to get ready and manage to still make breakfast at the hotel. This was by far the best hotel we had stayed in, and the breakfast was lovely. Nikki, Lauren and I all headed out at 10.30am to explore Hanoi. We had a few things on our list we wanted to see but we had planned a quite chillaxed day! Well actually there's no way Hanoi could ever be described a...

I must of been sleeping again by 9.30pm last night and slept right through till 7am. Only waking a couple of times to either throw off the blankets because I was sweating or pull them back on because I was freezing. I felt much more rested when I woke but still felt weak. I didn't eat anything for breakfast, as I had no appetite at all, just had my barocca vitamins and water. We were then getting the bus back to Hanoi this morning which took 4 hours, we left...

Charles woke us at 4am this morning as the train was due to get into Hanoi at 4.30am, I had slept like a log following the red wine last night. We then got a bus to Halong Bay which took around 4 hours. I had taken my malaria tablet when I woke this morning without any breakfast, which was totally stupid as I then felt sick the whole journey. When we got to the hotel we all had the buffet breakfast while we waited for our rooms to be ready, and I did start to f...

I went down to breakfast at the hotel myself, as I wasn't sharing with anyone last night and hadn't arranged a time to meet the girls. It was fine though, by the time I was down most of the group had already had their breakfast. We had a long day today with a 15 hour overnight train from Hué to Hanoi. We had to arrange food for the train and snacks to last us right through till the next morning. I went to the supermarket after breakfast to get some things, b...

I didn't sleep that great last night, I was either waking up because I thought I was going fall out of the bunk, or I was freezing cold, or I was roasting hot!!! So basically it was a weird one. I was super glad I had my sleeping bag, as I don't know what I'd have done without it... maybe slept standing up, it really was that disgusting. The train was meant to get into Danang at 9.30am, but as we have been told trains in Vietnam are never on time. Charles to...