Hello!! Thought i'd update you all with whats been going down. On saturday we didnt really do that much, went around the old quarter, went for lunch and started drinking. In the evening we went to get a tuk tuk to A club called Apocalypse now but unfortunately our main man let us down and just drove us around the city for an hour then dropped us at our hotel, what a rubbish night, but we found the funny sight of it. So due to this we decided to walk the streets and came across an open bar round the corner full of westerners like ourselves. We startled mingling and had a few more beers as they only cost 15,000 dong which is about 50p each. Jon got a moped back to the hotel to get more money and we joined everyone in a bar called the dragonfly. Unfortunately at about 1am the five O turned up and shut it down for the night(jon being in the loo at the time) but as soon as they left the street the bar re-opened for business and we were there till 4:30 in the morning Jon getting very very drunk. On sunday we obviously didnt get up early but when we did we booked a trip to Ha Long bay for monday. At 6:30 monday morning we woke up and checked out of our lovely hotel. We got a 3 hour minibus journey to Ha Long Bay where we boarded our boat which was to be out cockroach and apparently rat infested home for the next 2 days. The boat journey was 4 hours to the caves which were amazing but seriously you can only see so much rock and be amazed!!! After the caves the boat took us to a really beautiful area where we swam and kayaked for an hour or so, jumping of the top of the boat which was pretty high. We then set sail on our vessel to out location where we were to sleep. We had a lovely evening talking to new people on the boat but due to lack of sleep saturday night and an early morning monday we hit the sack at around 11, pretty drunk though of course, LADS. Unfortunately the people running the boat turned the power off at some point so fans didnt work and it got very hot, so at half 3 in the morning me and jon went up on the roof deck of the boat and jsut sat up there watching it get light which was about half 5. Ha Long bay is a seriously beautiful place and has amazing landscapes, it was amazinz to stay there. Today we went for a swim but our trip was over so had to get the bus back to Hanoi where weve checked into the same nice hotel for the night till tomorrow morning where were hopefully going to head south toward hoi anh and nah trang, to soak up some sun, sea, and sand. Hope everyone is well in England i hear the Weather is not great, its between 35 and 40 degrees here but getting the odd storm in the night haha. See you all soon, George xxx I forgot to mention the walls in the boat were really thin, and next door to us you could hear this aussie guy with the s***s, it was gross but really funny as well haha.