I haven't updated this for a while...two weeks actually. But next we went to Nha Trang, fab beach and night life. That's about all. The waves were insanely massive; we couldn't actually handle it and kept nearly drowning and being scraped along the sea shore - far less sophisticated than the eight year old girl next to us. I got back to the hotel, whipped off my bikini and filled the whole bath with the beach. Harry loved the waves however and spent four solid ho...

We got off the sleeper train from Sapa and had 2 hours to repack our bags and head for Halong Bay. We naively thought the journey was about half an hour out of Hanoi (Jen being a geographer and all), but were very wrong indeed. 4 hours later we got there. Here is where the story of the special boat begins. They oversold tickets and subsequently we were stuck on a 10 man boat, whilst the remaining 50 people partied 100 metres away on the cool boat. We got on with ...

Before we were able to step out of the airport in Hanoi, Harry in toe, we encounetered our first major obasticle. Jen got stuck at the Vietnamese border. Of course she immediately panicked and declared to everyone she was going to have to live there forever, before realising that Sam simply had to flash the border control guy a smile and she was allowed to cross Border Control to collect the neccessary cash. We immediately failed in paying attention to the warnin...