After Hoi An, we travelled up to Hue, an old imperial city. It was nice to look round the old citadel and palace, and the royal tombs scatttered around the outside. We tried to hire bikes to see the tombs, but after seeing one it starting chucking it down so we abandoned mission and ended up in a random cafe in a small village, with plastic chairs and lots of locals drinking tea and eating pho. After tea and Pho of our own, with chickens running around our fee...

OK, so after a pretty amazing time in Cambodia we headed into Vietnam. Of all the countries, this was the one I was looking forward to the most. Unfortunately, it got off to a bad start, with Both Laura and I getting ill from a restaurant in Phnom Peng, and by the time we got to Saigon we were in a bad way. Turns out there's not much to do in Saigon except drink, so it's not a great place to be when you have the s***s. We spent 3 days there recovering, and af...