Up early and have some of the lovely muesli that we got yesterday. It's not exciting but it does the job of keeping hunger at bay. We are down promptly for 8, though I don't know why, as I have been on a few tours and I know that we operate on Vietnam time, not real time. True to form I think it is closer to 9 before we are picked up. On to a little bus and we stop at a couple of hotels to pick up some more people. The usual obnoxious English making up some of ou...

Big lazy day today. Crawl out of bed after midday to go down and get a coffee. We end up picking this place that does western coffee, so we get ourselves an Americano, nice to have a change from the Vietnamese coffee. I decide that my leg is not making the progress that I would like, so I decide to go to a pharmacy and see what the craic is. Although her english is good, the medication that she has does not have much English. I look at various tablets and creams ...

Up early and Elias has dropped his bike in to get the repairs done. Then he comes back and we get some breakfast, the good old baguette and pate combo. Then we head back to see his Moto. I decide it is probably a good idea to fix my indicators and change the oil. Elias, on the other hand, has a long list of repairs, including, all his lights, luggage holder, foot rest and of course the oil. After getting this done and dusted it is back to the hotel to check out a...