Vietnam - Hoi An, Hue (15 - 19 May)

Hoi An was (or, I suppose, is) a kind of ye olde England version of Vietnam, like Chester or York or Sparrowpit is to England. Lots of quaint shops and a little harbour but rather too many people whose cousins have a tailor's shop that they'd like you to visit. Spent a couple of nice days at the seaside as well. The scenery in Vietnam is amazing - beautiful mountains, coastlines, rice paddy fields...

Hue, well, it wasn't that it was bad but we sort of saw it only when it was grey and rainy and it had some old royal palace or something that wasn't really convincing and the whole place seemed a bit grey and drab. Went to a cafe that was run by a deaf and dumb man. In true Vietnamese sneaky cheaty style, two cafes next door opened up with - guess what? - a deaf and dumb man supposedly running them.