Arrived in hotel in today after 4pm after a very tiring day! One of hardest days today, but felt better than yesterday! Bum is very tender and toe is a bit sore, but I'm getting there! Need to put some cream or something on bum!!! Big divides in the group with all the really competitive folk up the front! I've been sticking mid rear, which is just fine for me! Weather ideal today for cycling, no sun!!! In Moc Chau now, 62km, 8 hours on bike!!!ouch!! Hotel her...

Day one completed and it was suppose to be the easiest, but it HURT!!! Climbed 20km up big hill, which was really hard work, feeling pretty annoyed with myself as I know I haven't done enough training!! Had a bad start.... 30 mins in we had a pretty bad accident, chris's handle bars went funny and he had to change direction quickly, which meant another girl had to move, but couldn't move so went over the handlebars at quick pace down hill....gash to head etc, so...

Finished dinner and got entertained by local dancers and got to try local rice wine....very good!!

Goodbye Hanoi!! On the bus leaving Hanoi, 3 hour journey to first stop to get bikes before an easy (??) day of only 55km!!! Haha!! Everyone is really friendly and we all have the same worries, hopefully we will be ok though! Stayed in hang ngok hotel last night, really nice hotel and nice room. Had a group meal in restaurant in Hanoi last night which was good. Hanoi is mad so will be good to get out into the country!! It's hot but not too hot yet! Mixed group,...

I've arrived!! I'm shattered, hot an bothered, swollen ankles....surprise surprise!!! I'm the typical farmers daughter and everyone else look like they have just stepped off the set of sex and the city!! Oh well!! Day off today, going on rickshaws round the city then going to water puppet theatre tonight before welcome dinner and early to bed!!! This place is mad just like Cambodia, mopeds everywhere!! Toe looks mingin and everyone looks so fit, but I'll sold...