Hello all and welcome to another riveting installment of my travel blog. For those of you who don't know or even those of you who are still reading this, I have left my job at the hospital for many reasons most of them involving a complete lack of communication and just general Vietnamese craziness and am currently trying to find a new assignmen...

The new day started at about 6 AM. This was good as we hope to skew our schedule to early.  Breakfast was probably much like all the other breakfasts we will be eating on this trip, so we will stop reporting on it unless there's something particularly interesting about it - there were eggs and stuff.  The hotel was righting i...

I can't believe it's already Friday. It's a good thing though, I'm exhausted. Last night I was up until all hours of the morning with some serious cold symptoms. Actually, I was just very congested. It came on very suddenly. Each time I settled into "sleep" position, I felt like I had a block of 'congestion' in my throat (I'll save you from havi...

We woke up this (Sunday) morning at 4:30. I was wired...not quite over the jetlag it seemed! Matt and I decided we would take an early morning stroll before all the hustle of Hanoi Street life began. The streets were still pretty empty, as expected. After all it was 4:45 am on a Sunday morning, street life as we had experienced the night before ...

Waking up in Halong Bay with a little bit of mist hanging over the water, I wish we were spending more time out here. It's going to be great to come back again in a weeks time on the way into China. We then had breakfast as we headed back to port and disembarked at about 8am. And once again as I got off I smacked my head on a low beam. I have do...

Once again, this is just a dummy entry to see how well I like TravelPod as ablog service. If you really want to read about my trip, go to my regular travel site.

It was fantastic sleeping in today... before today I was feeling a distinct lack of sleep and starting to feel the effects of traveller's burnout. I enjoyed taking it easy today with a stroll around my favourite lake (Lake Kiem), a delicious lunch of pizza (much-needed after all the Vietnamese), and another session of chats with local university...