Vietnam
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Day 215 – Riding the Reunification Express
The lack of curtains in our hotel helps us get up before 7 at least ???? We hightail it outta there to the Ninh Binh railway station to catch our train down South It’s an 8 hour trek to Hong Doi and as any typical train is, it’s late arriving to pick us up; it’s…
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Day 214 – Uncovering Vietnam’s ancient capital
Up for our breakfast and then chill in the room a bit before we decide to get on with the day We pay up and check out and lug our bits to Coffee Cat, a cafe that has an animal enthusiast running it No cappuccinos but two milk coffees will do us while we play…
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Day 213 – Tam Coc’s waterways
Up for 9ish to make sure we don’t miss our free breakfast – not a bad view either After, we go back to our bungalow and do some work before getting started with the day Straight to the centre where we find the Tam Cốc-Bích Động ticket office – not too easy to find, especially…
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Day 212 – The great journey back to mainland
We get heavy rain and a lightning storm last night – first rain we’ve had in almost a month – poor Dave struggled to get a good sleep Nevertheless, we’re up around 7am to make sure we get a coffee in the hotel room before popping up for our free breakfast Time to make hast…
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Day 211 – New mode of transport unlocked ????
Up in time for some breakfast just before 9:30am; it’s a set menu set up so we order and it’s brought fresh A mango and chocolate pancake for Dave and a banana and honey pancake for Daisy After, we go back to the room to have a coffee with some more of the Waterworld film…
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Day 210 – Work, work, work, work, work
Safe to say we missed breakfast this morning – that’s alright though; the area is so cheap, we’ll easily be able to grab something shortly We’re having a planned slow day today and it’s helpful to have work so it’s not a wasted day At around 11am, we’re up and getting ready to leave this…
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Day 209 – Cruising the bays
Up at 7:15am to get ready speedily and down for some breakfast, included in our stay It’s not overly glamorous but does the job: some egg noodles, toast, eggs, fruit and, of course, coffee We’re done and ready for 8am, as requested by the guy we booked our tour for today with, though they’re a…
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Day 208 – Thank goodness for Cat Ba
The hotel was almost perfect – shame the other guests don’t need sleep, causing rawkus almost every hour from 6am! We did manage a better sleep than we have the last several days before though ???? We have a couple coffees in the room with some Brooklyn Nine-Nine on the telly doing about an hour’s…
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Day 207 – Sleepless again in Halong Bay
Another terrible night’s sleep but our final night in Hanoi… let’s hope things go up from here! Daisy is out and about to go get her nails done at 9:30am – we aren’t leaving for a couple hours so more than enough time In the meantime, Dave works, packs, tries to checkout finding the lift…
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Day 206 – Sleepless in Hanoi
After getting to bed at about 1am, you will be happy to hear that we manage to sleep through until 6am! However, it seems people like rearranging furniture in this hotel early; we drift on and off waking up to the sounds of screaming people, bike horns and a very loud karaoke bar setting up…