Well having caught the train from DaNang to Hanoi a 14 hr journey because the train moves as fast as a bus but shows some picturesque country side we finall arrived in Hanoi.Ive shared my journey with an amiable Swede called Daniel.Ive also shared my food and in return he shares a bottle of scotch which we proudly drained!!!We get to Hanoi at ar...

I can't believe I am in Hanoi! Actually, I can't see much because my eyes are so watery. I can't even read the maps to find my way around the city, mostly doing it trial and error. My conjunctivitis is raging. According to what I found on the internet I've got about 3 to 5 more days of this. Just in time to go home. So, it was really weird, but ...

Hi All, Well, after a 24 hour delay we are safely in Hanoi! The flight was incredibly long...a whopping 14.5 hrs just to Taiwan.  The airport in Taipei is the nicest I have ever been in. There was every imaginable high end store there. There was cognac sampling right in the terminal. The thing that struck me on the ride into Hanoi...

Hey there kids. Arrived in Hanoi a little while ago, and Stu and I have just got back to our guesthouse after some lush grub and the best drink ever that i just had to try - an avacado and chocolate ice-cream shake!!!  It's amazing, and i'm totally going to steal it and take it back to England as my own. ;)  I tell you what though - yo...

We arrived in Hanoi by plane from Hue - arriving about 11:30 p.m.  We've booked in at the Prince Hotel in the Old Quarter.  Because of how narrow the streets are Hanoi gives you the impression that it's twice as busy as Saigon, when in fact it's only half the population of Saigon with only half the motorbikes!  But, having said th...

After spending three days on the back of a scooter exploring the breathtaking ruins of Angkor Wat, I hopped on a plane to Hanoi (not before experiencing a scooter ride to the airport in a downpour). As soon as I was off the plane I could feel the energy that runs through this city. I'm staying in the old quarter, which has French Colonial archit...

Two months into teaching, and I figured it was time for an update. We started our summer schedules last week, which means we were both able to pick up hours and ditch the weekend work, both of which are good things. During the summer, they move all the kids' classes from one or two days a weekend to two or three days during the week, so there ar...

Welcome to the North. Well, no place is perfect and such is the case in Hanoi. We've noticed that the further north we go the less friendly the folks are. Kind of like home...just kidding Yankee's! From Hue on up it's gotten worse as have the bus rides but hey, what do you want for 16 bucks. Upon landing in Hanoi we ran into another scam. It goe...

Finally, after more than 24 hours of travel (well, since I walked out of the front door at home, anyway), I have arrived in at my first destination - Vietnam! Again the flight from Bangkok was uneventful - thank God - and I landed in Hanoi around 10am. Hanoi airport seems quite small - maybe it was just the bit I saw - but I remember last time w...

Hello again friends, Sometimes you need to have travelday's. And this thursday (8.3) was that kind of a day. We left Yangshou thursday afternoon. It took us only one hour to reach Guilin. We had a slight change in our plans, since the guy from the tourist office couldn't arrange us the bus tickets we wanted... So arrived in Guilin we decided to ...