Woke up feeling shakey and cold and stiff and bunged up. But got up, had a hot showed, dressed and felt a bit better. Went for some breakie and caught up with emails. Walked out into the sunshine - remembered my sunglasses today! and headed for the Notre Dame Cathedral, hoping for a bit of a relaxing day. Everything is still open even though it is New Years Day, i think they were just pretending to celebrate last night and i dont think a lot of them knew whe...

Hello. Today we have been walking walking walking... Claire arrived in time for some breakie, so we had that, both eastern and western available, its just like a vietnamese buffet and then continental, or you can have noodle soup or fried eggs. The bread is quite sweet and the coffee is nice too. Looked at guide books and maps and decided on a rouge plan of action for our days in Ho Chi Minh. Today consisted of visiting Ben Tranh Market and just general shopp...

Woke up in my very HOT room at 3am, but went back to sleep, woke up and thought i had better check the time and it was 12pm!!!!! I quickly had a showerand in the process wet everything in the bathroom, dressed and then the phone rang for me to change rooms. I am now in room 111, it was very noisy with banging, crashing and shouting last night, maybe this room will be quieter! The restaurant in the hotel was closed, even though it was lunchtime so i had to go ou...

Finally after more than 30 hours travelling i have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City. The flight landed early, but took over an hour to go through Immigration and Baggage claim, think the manchester bags must have got on first and were therefore offloaded last! The flight was another good one, managed to have a bit of a kip. Came out of the airport and was hit by a wall of warm, its very hot and humid, but not unbearable. The fella from the tour company was waiting...