15/10/2010 The pig man . . .If our train had arrived at danang when we expected it to, the trauma I suffered could have been avoided. I believe the train was always meant to arrive at 3.30pm but we got told earlier, in the 2 and half hour diference of 'are we nearly there yet'. Buying lots of milk to have my tea to get through it. A guy, named the pig man got on for the last few stops. He started first by replacing yawning with snorting, weird and I don't unders...

14/10/2010Moving swiftly on not so swiftly. . .I was up at the crack of dawn showered and on the deck, the sunrise was crap compared to the sunset, as the sunset was beautiful followed by a lightening storm which I just love watching.Breakfast at 8am, fruit for me and there was bread, rice and noodles and egg, but all the white bread is making me constipated. We chilled on the boat while the others left for a longer tour, and we had people join our boat to head b...

All aboard . . .Arrived 5am ish at hanoi and walked back to the hostel and got booked onto our halong bay junk boat plus refund for cutting our last tour short.Bus trip at 8.30am to halong bay after of course a white baguette breakfast. We boarded our boat and had dinner, which was all meat and seafood, not so great for me, so I got some veg.We went kayaking round the islands and at the end attached our kayak(they were doubles) to the two barcelona guys kay...

I can do the splits . . .Breakfast, I got out my tea bag supply(the majority of my bag), anna and joe got out their milk and we all sat with an english breakfast with our million pancake supply and one very finely chopped pear between us and some honey.We can't complain, it wasn't a baguette. But when we did ask for more honey, our first portion supplied was gorgeous all thick and pure, the second, watered down, we got too greedy, another pear, oh no finish...

Let the mud slides and clinging on for dear life begin . . .Arrival at sapa, we waited on the mini bus for the other trains for the other people(yep we are on a tour). We got dropped off at a hotel, not the best for breakfast and a shower, I skipped the shower, tried ordering an omelette- finished, a fruit salad- finished, so we got a white baguette with butter, urgh and a couple slices melon. Shortly followed by the couple next to us getting served fresh f...