Hoi An

Hoi An is stunning, probably my favourite town we've been to. It's antiquey and has loads of narrow cobbled streets, with little street front restaurants and bars, and a lovely river. We spent about 4/5 days there, and I could have stayed there for much longer!

We went to the tailor for 3 more fittings over the next three days - at the first one I made them adjust everything, but the next two were better! We took all our clothes home on the day before we left, then we went out and bought a giant duffle bag to carry them around in!

We spent a lot of time in the hotel's pool, which was usually deserted, and at bars and restaurants along the river side. We also did a lot of shopping, John bought five ties to go with his new suit, and we bought some souvenirs - I think we were quite restrained though!

We decided to treat ourselves to a nice meal at one of the restaurants recommended in our guidebook - the Mango Room. They gave us free home made crisps and salsa as we browsed the menu, then after we ordered our main courses they brought us free starters too! We had some kind of vegetable tempura to start, which was delicious, then I had tofu with a garlicky sauce and John had Sea Bass.

Since the restaurant was quite expensive, we went to our favourite cafe at the riverside afterwards and had a bottle of local wine, which was nice and cheap! The same cafe had draught beer for about 8p a glass, which John took full advantage of.

We got a bus to Hue (as recommeded by the kid we met at Sea Lake), which was cramped and hot, but only took a couple of hours. John is writing about Hue right now, eventually we will be caught up!!