Old Fogies

Sunday 7th November

Sickness score:

Darren 2 - Pauline & Tyler 0

I finally get to win at something :-) It seems the food poisoning that I picked up in China was only waylayed whilst I was on the medication, as soon as that ran out its back with a vengence and I feel crappy!

A lot of hotels here have the facility to lull you out of your slumber by playing wake up music through their in house system, however ours has a rather more novel approach, we automatically get our wake up call at 05:30 when the builders philharmonic orchetra on the building site next to us, do their best to try to recreate Beethovens 5th Symphony using only a circular saw, electric drill and hammer.

Though not as musically gifted as the dead composer, they are relentless in their efforts to perfect their melody and practice throughout the day to ensure they get it just right.

Anyway now that I am yet again wide awake I figured I may as well take time out to update this thing again!

We are now back in Hanoi about to leave on a sleeper bus down to Hue for a couple of days, and its a journey I am not looking forward too to say the least. We got back from Monkey Island yesterday and on the bus home our driver got arrested for god knows what, then he got lost and we ended up 3 hours late back to our hotel (not ideal when you have food poisoning).

Monkey Island was great though, we were pretty much left to our own devices for most of our second day as they ferried the rest of the tourists off of the island first thing in the morning and didnt come back until the afternoon. We basically had our own desert island with a full compliment of staff to boot!

We all Kayaked around to the other beech so that we could watch the monkey's terrorise the tourists some more, it was great to see grown men run for their lives as a minature ape tried its best to relive him of whatever he could get his hands on!

When we got back to the resort the boat had brought the new tourists across and much to our delight it was two boatfuls of teenagers intent on partying through the night! Yipee!!!

I havent felt this old in a long time! So in true fogey style we retreated back to our cabin at an all together repectable 10pm and listened to the thumping drum and bass emenating from the club house for the remainder of the evening.