Hoi An is fab!! It is just as you would expect a South East Asian City to be. Ancient buildings, markets stocked to the gills with not just fish (sorry!) but fruit, veg and everything imaginable. As night falls the streets are alight with hundred of Chinese lanterns. It is also the shopping capital of Vietnam; tailors are cheek by jowl and could knock up a whole new wardrobe in a matter of days for you (and shoes; made to any design as well). You could have a serious excess baggage problem here - and they sell bags as well! I would be seriously tempted but I don't think a little silk dress would look very good after 6 months in a rucksack. We have also found a great bar to have a pre-prandial beer. They play ace music (Paul sits there singing along to Neil Young) and a painting on the wall of Bono as superman. We ate really well last night, what was basically a five-course tasting menu of local specialities plus drinks all for eight quid. Our hotel is very smart, with a bed so big it took me half an hour to find Paul and a bathtub the size of a small lake - all for twenty pounds a night including breakfast. We are two very content little bunnies. Today we will be doing the classic walking tour of the town and chilling out...
Oh and finally; we really enjoyed the train ride from HCMC. We had comfortable air-con bunks and even mum would have approved of the loos. We laughed though; at six am we were lying there watching the scenery go past when the wake-up music started; a sort of tinkly eastern version of 'I can't get used to losing you' by Andy Williams! The most incongruous sound you could imagine!
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