Hi All,

Its been a few days and a lot has happened!

Hope you are all well? On the 5th we made our way out of Ho Chi Minh via sleeper bus.

We'll try and keep it as short as possible.

After 11 hours on the sleeper bus with absolutley loads of beeping and even worse overtaking we arrived at Nha Trang. We've yet to upload any of the beach type pictures, but its awesome! We met another traveller called Dave, yes they seem to be everywhere these Daves, there are at least two reading this now! Dave is a bit of an adrenaline junkie and suggested that we rent some bicycles. Never one to be seen as a chicken both of us accepted knowing that the traffic here is mental. After brief confusion about which way the traffic went, we were off!

The festival of the sea started on the day we arrived, loads of fireworks and masses of people all gathered aroound the beach. Went on to the infamous Sailors club, think Infernos, but on the beach.

Second day in Nha Trang got to know some really nice people. Two dutch girls a mental gay mexican who pulls EVERY night and a Parisian. On the second day by some feat of nature we woke up early and went by boat to do some snorkling. Although the water is warm, really not much to be seen in apart from a few rocks and some sea weed, however the floating bar was a novalty! Talking of novalty I have become one to the vietnamese one of which asked me to take a photo of her mum. I of course agreed and went to take the camera from her, she refused and said she wanted a photo of me WITH her mum.

Third day in Nha Trang was spent on the beach just relaxing in between the hundreds of book, sunglasses, food and ice-cream sellers passing by selling their wears, the favourite line here is, ' same, same but different' it seems to work in all circumstances even when things arent the same and they are far far different!

The evening was spent with a huge group from our dorm gatecrashing a wedding reception at an aptly named bar called Crazy Kim's. Kim is mental, occasionally goes out wearing a nappy and gets drunk off her fae most nights- see pictures of a lady in a hat and white dress!!! Of course after some drawing on the wall of the red apple bar, some table-top dancing at Crazy Kim's we went on to to the Sailing Club for some beach dancing. There is a technique to dancing in the sand after a few beavies it is one Ben has clearly yet to muster. While talking to the group, standing still, he managed to fall backwards crashing to the earth on his bum.

Gonna stay in Nha Trang for two more nights, and head off to Hoi An to have some suits and shoes made. One of the Irish guys from our dorm had three kinds of gold, leopard print trainers made, I reckon we can outdo him in the bad fashion stakes.

Well please add me (esther) on facebook as this is where all of the pictures are going to be uploaded. This Sta think is a pain in the bum for uploading pictures

Loads-a-love

Ben and esther