Well it has certainly been a memorable couple of days.... After checking into a seemingly nice hotel (although still 84 steps to climb to the room every day!) and having dinner just around the corner we returned hoping for a good nights sleep..... Little did we know that we'd be returning to a building site!!! While the guys chipped away at the wall, the girls carried the cement up and down the stairs!! The banging continued all sodding night! Needless to s...

Had a good and busy day in Hanoi yesterday....In the morning had a visit to the Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum Complex - in the tradition of Lenin, Stalin and Mao the final resting place of Ho Chi Minh is a glass sarcophagus set deep in the bowels of a monumental edifice. And quite oddly despite his will requesting cremation Ho Chi Minh's embalmed corpse gets a three month holiday to Russia for yearly maintenance! Urgh. There was a lot information to take in and it make...