Bed #62 Artisan Boutique Hotel, Hoan Kiem Lake Hanoi, Vietnam We changed hotels in Hanoi because Mama didn’t like the “posh-dungeon” with no windows at the Tirant. The Artisan Boutique is just round the corner in the Old Quarter by Hoan Kiem Lake. Its on a quiet little street with

Bed #61 Tirant Hotel, Old Quarter Hanoi, Vietnam The Tirant Hotel in Hanoi looks like a posh hotel to me, Mama says its 1980’s posh with lots of fake gold & marble. Our bedroom #506 is big but has no windows, Mama HATES rooms with no sunlight ! The bathroom

4 weeks in Vietnam – How much did we spend ? Well our budget is creeping back up again ! This month’s $4,450 is slightly more expensive than Cambodia and $1,000 more than Thailand ! To be honest that isn’t a reflection on the prices in Vietnam, it’s more like us

World Snooze Tour Bed #60 Glory Legend Cruise, Halong Bay, Vietnam WOW BED #60 !!!!!!!! I love sleeping on boats, we spent 3 days on a wooden “junk” boat sailing around Halong Bay in Northern Vietnam. Halong Bay means “Descending Dragon Bay” because the 2000 limestone rock islands look like

World Snooze Tour Bed #59 Sleeper Train Hue to HaNoi, Vietnam We thought we’d try a Vietnamese sleeper train to see how they compare to the Thai ones. It was easy to book the ticket at a travel agent for 10 days in advance. We boarded the train in Hue

World Snooze Tour Bed #57 Moonlight Hotel Hue, Vietnam Hue is the old Imperial Capital of Vietnam where the Emperors used to live. There is a huge walled Citadel with a smaller walled Citadel inside it, called the Forbidden City. The Emperors also built themselves huge palace-like tombs outside the

World Snooze Tour Bed #57 Hoi An Beach Resort, Cua Dai, Vietnam My friend Noah who I met in Saigon is in Cua Dai (Hoi An Beach Resort) this week, so Mama has booked us in here too 🙂 This hotel is more expensive than the Hoi An Marina because

Planes, Trains, Autos & Boats #42 Fishing with a local, Vietnam In Hoi An, we went on a very cool day out with a local fisherman in his little wooden fishing boat. It was so narrow only one person could fit and if you moved even a tiny bit it

Planes, Trains, Autos & Boats #41 Soviet Minsk Motorbikes, Vietnam A pretty cool day trip today, we went on old Russian, Minsk motorbikes for a 4 hour, 60km drive around rural,Central Vietnam. We drove through little villages & rice fields, we saw farmers harvesting the rice & drying it on

World Snooze Tour Bed #56 Hoi An Silk Marina Resort, Old Town, Vietnam In Vietnam we seem to be staying at some very nice, posh hotels ! In Hoi An we stayed in the old town, which looks very Chinese/Japanese, it has thousands of lanterns hanging EVERYWHERE on the trees,