Vietnam - Rain :(

It's raining. A lot. It's still warm, but even so, our plans of getting a motorbike and seeing the remaining sights in Ngu Trang are scuppered. We can't exactly go to the beach either and the other tours available to us re outside. So we're at a bit of a loss.

We checked out of the hotel as late as possible and went looking for 'dirt bike tours', it sounded fun and who cares if we get a bit muddy, right? Well Trip Adviser screwed up again, it's another place that is recommended by them and doesn't exist anymore. By this time, Mark's deck shoes were saturated and wary of foot rot setting in having not worn dry shoes for the second day, he binned them and invested in some fake Puma flip flops.

With no other option we went to The Sailing Club, grabbed a drink and occupied the pool table. After a few games a kid about 8 came over, we think he was Korean. He started telling us who was playing next and at the end of the game decided that he was playing next. Fair enough, we can let him have a go, although he couldn't even hold a cue let alone hit the ball. All he did was whack the balls with the side of the cue and throw them on the floor. Our patience was a little thin after about 15mins of this and our polite 'Good bye now' gestures didn't get through to him. So we did the only other option and hid from him until he went away.

At about 2:30 it was clearing up so we walked back to the hotel to book a bike. By the time we got to the hotel it was lashing it down again, and without a room we took over the lobby as the rain got heavier.

Several hours later we're still in the lobby, between us we've read every page on the internet! Soon we'll catch the night train and head back to Saigon. Mark is hoping that the mozzies that are feasting on him don't follow.

So a pretty uneventful day, topped by the fact that the 'posh train' that we're on isn't quite as posh as the last one. Half way through the journey and the toilet is broken, there is no water in the sink, the beds are shorter and the mattresses are thinner than a flattened hedgehog!