We made it to Ha Noi at 4.30am today after a 12 hour train journey!
It’s 6pm now & we’re still awake! Nothing was open at 4.30am so we sat
by the lake watching the joggers, power walkers & tai chi until 7am
when things started to open.

Hanoi seems really nice plus we have booked a 3 day boat trip around
Ha Long Bay from Monday. We have tomorrow to explore the city & then
when we return from Ha Long Bah we have slightly changed our plan
because Laos is just too difficult, slow & expensive to do so we will
fly directly to the SW coast of Thailand at the end of next week (not
that we have booked it yet…prob do that tomorrow so we will let you
know the plan once organised).

Now off for food and an early night.