Good Morning Vietnam!

Sorry, had to start at least one post with this title. I'd been concious that it's been a few days or so since I updated this blog, but signing in now I realise it's been more like two weeks. Vietnam is that good my 13 days between Saigon and Hanoi have felt like a weekend break. Normally I update this when I can, and when travelling with people it's harder to find time, meaning I just have to do it during the night when the others are sleeping. But I've been lucky to have some great company whilst in a fantastic country, that when everyone's asleep, even the last of the Aussies, the remaining Brits didn't let the side down making the most of just about every hour in each place. I honestly averaged about 2 hours sleep a night and got less on a couple of occasions. Peddling around the streets is great fun, even better night, especially when motoped taxi's accept you don't need a ride so cruise along beside you offering noodle soup instead!

As I always seem to end up saying about each new country I visit, Vietnam has to be the best place I've been so far (not counting Russia of course), but this time I think I'll stick to it, it's really going to take some beating. I hope there's more to my praise for 'Nam than just the fact that everywhere I look there's red, yellow, stars, hammers and sickles...I love that! It makes me feel a little like being back in Russia, just a tad warmer. I've been away quite a while now and lost touch with current events back home, so fingers crossed the UK have adopted an entirly red version of the Union Jack and maybe even got themselves a little gold star and hammer & sickle to put on there somewhere too!