Just on the way back from a tour of Ha Long Bay – we eventually got to our kayaks about 6 hours late. Ha Long bay has been made a UNESCO world heritage site – it’s a pile of 2000 small islands rising out of the sea, which is littered with floating villages. It’s quite […]
We’d finished a nightmare train ride, and arrived in Hanoi determined to do something other than hide in airconditioned luxury, so a trip to the Hanoi Hilton was in order. This is a prison built by the French a hundred years ago, and used to ‘cruely hold political heroes striving for a free country’. ‘Evil
