Well, that was one of the more stressful days of our trip. Starting out when we took the tuk tuk to the address suggested by Booking.com, arriving with just seven minutes to spare before...

It’s hot, it’s humid, it’s Hanoi. And it’s like we’ve never been away. The only thing we’d forgotten is the complete absence of tuk tuks. We never...

One little bonus yesterday, when we got upgraded from a sleeper seat, which we were not looking forward to, but it was cheap, to the front row of a VIP limousine, aka Ford Transit with...

Well, we can’t say we weren’t warned.  Everyone said the cops lie in wait, pull you over, demand your International Driving Licence, then hit you with a million dong fine...

The bikes, dood, the bikes! YeGods! We knew we weren’t the only ones who thought doing the Ha Giang loop would be a great way to spend a few days, but we never imagined… They...

THUD! Unh? THUD! Virle: What the goodness gracious was that? (I paraphrase.) THUD! RATATATATATAT! THUD! I grope for my phone. It’s 7am and we appear to have come under mortar...