Easy day by the pool today. Not sunny but warm and mostly dry. It is nice to have sometime just relaxing and to be honest recover from the night before's fresh beers and the 12 previous days of travel. Looking forward to tonight out in the old town again, Dive Bar is becoming a favourite of ours. Today was a big day for the tannoy system. Tannoys seem very popular here. There's the reading out of the news (we think) sometimes very early in the morning. Then the...

You know that point in Forest Gump regarding rainy season, well we are in it. Rain from above, rain from the side and rain from below. Started last night and we are sitting having breakfast watching it continue to pour. Yvonne wants to sit by the pool under an umbrella but I think she's being optimistic, we will just have to find some other activity to do. The other activity was a pub crawl after we sat by the pool (rained once but we preserved). Went out ar...

Train journey from Hue to Hoi An. Enjoyed some food from the trolley on the train. We bought it because we didn't know what it was, still don't. It was like chocolate rice crispies without the chocolate but with chilli and dried fish. We had a car meet us and take us to the latest hotel. Getting too used to the private car pick ups. New hotel is a bit rough; it has its own private beach, pool, jacuzzi and 4 poster beds. The most impressive bit is the truly massi...

Food adventures continue. We normally go for the eastern breakfast but this hotel has a huge buffet so we tried the western delicacies on offer. David thought that spaghetti carbonara was an interesting choice for breakfast but Yvonne went for the potatoes dauphinoise with hot dog sausages. Spent most of the day lazing by the pool, but we are now sitting in Little Owl bar enjoying beer, ice coffee with milk, coconut cakes and crispy pancake with prawns and pork ...

Started the day in DMZ bar booking the train tickets to De nang then to the Hue Citadel and purple forbidden city. The place has largely been ruined by first the French then the Americans and finally was hit by a typhoon. What remains is fantastic and the whole area is a world heritage centre. The area is in the process of being rebuilt but large areas are overgrown. We were in there for about 4 and a half hours walking around the remaining buildings and around ...