Get up 8 to get ready for the cooking class, Michael said he would be home for half 8 but when he wasn't I set off anyway. It should have taken 20 minutes to get to Ma May street but it took my 45 minutes! The scenic route is that only way! (I got very lost and walked past the place twice!)

On the way, a guy tried to mug me! Please do I look vulnerable!! He was about 25, ran up to me and started pointing at my feet and got a lighter out and started lighting it near my face! It was trying to distract me! Nice try mate! Held onto my phone for dear life, shouted at him and quickly walked away! He chased after me so I screamed at him. This was on a busy street which didn't seem to bother him! He stopped following me after a while though, clearly I'm ten men!

Asked about 528 different shop owners where Ma May was! Can't believe how lost I got but I finally got there only 15 minutes late!!!

Met the chef called Tien and waited to see if Michael would turn up! At 9.45 we concluded that he wasn't coming and left to go to the market for ingredients! We got a taxi there and back as we had wasted time waiting.

It was the market we went to the other day but we went to the fresh food section of it. We got all the vegetables and herbs that I needed and rice paper for the spring rolls. Then as I'm cooking a fish dish today we had to buy one of those. NEVER AGAIN!!!

He chose the snake fish that he wanted. It was still alive. Fabulous! If you think I'm killing a fish you have another thing coming! I'm far to classy to be killing fish! These hands were not made for bludgeoning weird snake skin fish!

Not to worry though, we grabbed the nearest murderer and he did the deed! So, he grabbed the fish, put it in a plastic bag, got a rock and hit its head till it stopped moving, took it out of the bag, cut the fins off and got a brush looking thing and de scaled it. At which point it was still alive!!!! Kill me now!! It was moving!! So he grabbed the rock and hit it again!

After wiping the blood from his face, he cut its head and tail off, sliced it in half and put it in a bag with all the rest of the fins, head and tail as the chef wanted those bits! Yuck!!!

These women with the tray baskets on string on and plank of wood on there shoulders carry all sorts of weird things! One of them had piles of alive chickens with there wings tied together! Apparently these women walk for miles each day to sell stuff at the market! Bless them!

Got a taxi back to the restaurant! Washed my hands and put an apron and chefs hat on! A full on 3 story high hat!

Started the Fish Clay Pot first which had snake head fish, chilli, galangal, lemongrass, fish sauce, sugar, shallots, spring onion, black pepper, caramel sauce, cooking oil and stock.

Then made Spring Rolls which had tofu, carrot, spring onions, vermicelli, woodear, eggs, rice paper, shallots, pepper and sugar!

After that I made Stir Fried Vegetables and put a bit of everything in!

I was the only person in the class! He asked if I was a chef in England as I was good at using a knife, I just told him I was from Hull and you have to learn quickly! ;)

You eat everything you make and as I was the only one there they just stared at me the whole time! It wasn't awkward at all ...

Finished the course at 12! He gave me a certificate and some free post cards from around Vietnam!

The full course cost £24 but we gave a deposit of £12 the other day. Michael lost his deposit.

Only took me 20 minutes I walk home! I have no clue how it took me 45 this morning!! Maybe I was still asleep!

Chilled at home for a bit till Michael strolled in at 3!

At tea time we went to Gecko restaurant down our street for tea!

Vietnam is know for its cheap clothes and a lot of people we have met get clothes made here for them! We went shopping and I bought a new dress! It's really cute! I think it was about £5 but can't really remember!

Got ready and walked to GC bar! Met Toni and Lee! Lee gave me a lift on her moped and we all went to Maos bar! I absolutely adore Mao! He is hilarious!

Met some girls there, cannot remember there names to save my life but they were lovely!

Then got on mopeds to Solace Club! Boban came with us and me, Michael and Boban had the time of our lives on the back of the mopeds! Talking to everyone else on the motorway! Loved it! Not really mum, I wrapped myself in bubble wrap and rolled there.

Solace Club is a club on a boat! Very cool! The boat doesn't sail anywhere though but you have to cross a huge walkway over the water to get there!

It was only when we got there that they decided to tell us that the club is full of mafia and to watch your back. Great! Im hardly the most shy and retiring person! Why did I not come packing!

These guys tried it on and I always just say Michael is my boyfriend because no one clicks here! But he told them
I was single! So much for having my back! So there I am talking to possible mafia, eviling Michael and thinking of excuses to leave!

It was such a fun night though! Absolutely love Solace! I didn't leave the dance floor once! It's boiling hot though so everyone is soaking wet! Horrible but everyone is the same so it didn't matter!

Stayed with Michael, Toni, Lee, Boban and a couple of others all night!

Lee gave me a lift home on her moped and got home at 3.30!