Ok! Picture the scene! Back in our hotel room after dinner, I ask Damian for his phone so that I can do today's afternoon/ evening blog. He fumbles in his trouser pocket...NO PHONE! I call his mobile using my phone...it rings ,BUT WE CAN'T HEAR IT! Even on silent we would be able to hear the vibrating noise...but no such luck ! "OMG, it must have slipped out of my pocket in the taxi on way back from the restaurant!" Sh*t, Sh*t and Sh*t say both adults in unis...

T'was a slow afternoon! We like The Essence Hotel . A very friendly and information manager and front desk. A good lunch at the Hotel to recharge our batteries but I think the train journey definitely left me feeling a lot more tired than I thought I was...I was accused of being very tetchy! Hmmm. MOI? Definitely back in a city... Motorbikes everywhere again! We walked into the Old quarter, lots of shops, lots of street hawkers. We make a very important purc...

We made it! A distance of 500 miles from Da Nang to Hanoi in 18 hours and 20 minutes!! 10 stops in total. Why so long considering only 500 miles? The train only does a maximum of we think 40mph...a snail's pace. There ain't no express trains here! Ok..so it wasn't quite the Orient Express. I think we must have hyped up the train description to the kids a bit too far. "It's TINY! I thought we had a carriage!" were the words muttered once we found our cabin...c...

8.50am sharp and Emma and I (no boys allowed!!) are in a taxi to Hoi An town to pick up our tailor made shoes! All 5 fit perfectly and we love and every single pair! In fact we have made a pact to come back here when we do our last leg in Da Nang (30 minute ride vs current 10 mins) to get a few more pairs...sooooo cheap compared to London and we can have the exact design and colour we want :-) Needless to say, we did an extra detour on this trip and visited a fe...

Clear blue skies again. Another chilled day split between the beach and pool, interrupted only by a 30 minute jet ski ride minus myself (no travel sickness tablet would be good enough to prevent me being sick on this!) and lunch :-) 4pm. Trip back into Hoi An town to pick up the clothes we got measured for yesterday. Prior to going to the shop directly though, Emma and I left the boys in a cafe so we could check out the footwear scene! Oh yes...another huge suc...