Today for the people of Vietnam I feel sad. We visited the museum of war now known as 'War Remnants' but previously called 'Americas war crimes'-or something to that effect. It's name was changed after the Americans demanded it to be done during some treaty agreement some years back. Personally I think they should have kept the name the same, seeing as that's exactly what the museum was portraying. I'm going to be honest. I cried. And I don't do crying. It was s...

So today we had a long sleep due to our late flight. After firmly denying maid service into our room we got up to face the day-you know you've slept in when the maid tries to clean your room! We then decided to have a wander about for some brunch. After several wrong turns and discovering that the Siagon River isn't quite as spectacular as we'd hoped (I mean it is pretty long and all that, but we were hoping for some life around the river and not just a dock) we...

Due to the delay in our flight down south methinks it's only fitting to delay Wednesdays blog. Am tired and I want to to bed :-). Night all!!

Last day in Hanoi! :-( Pancakes for breakfast today-just because I'm on holiday! As if I just typed some of this up only to delete it by accident! Fool. Right take two: after breakfast we realised we needed to pay for our ha long bay trip upon check out and so decided to run to the bank. Then we realised we probably had time to run to the cathedral and have a look at it's 'neo gothic' like ness. Which seriously only took a few snaps on the old camera as we re...

A late start to the day but we were still down to breakfast for 9am (fresh fruit, croissant, French toast and syrup and coffee-thanks for asking). We decided that a trip to Hanoi would not be complete without a little wander down to Bang Trang for the handmade ceramics. I was slightly overexcited as the last time I was in this situation (Marrakesh with McCadden) I got very carried away and had to sneak ma-hoosive bowls through security in my hand luggage-however...