Hanoi still

Hi all,
I can't read my comments, or even my own blog, as something has changed over the last few weeks that is preventing me from doing so. I have tried my settings etc. but have no idea why it is not working.

We left Hoi An to move to Hue. A 4-5 hr journey which was quite ok. Cept this really nasty westerner(not sure what nationality he was but some thought he was Spanish or Isreali) wouldn't give up the back seat for the relief driver to sleep on. The driver tried his best to get him to move but he kept saying I paid my ticket and just would not move. Normally most westerners will give up the seat and go to another available seat. Not this sod. So the driver then picked on poor Robbie and started slapping her arm to move seats. So she had to sit with me. We had a laugh tho as we swapped ear phones and listened to cheesy music on each others's MP3 players or listened to the really cheesy awful muzak on the bus.
We got to Hue and then tried to get out the same day. Impossible. We tried buses, trains and planes but to no avail. Everything was booked as the yearly festival was in full swing. The heat in Hue was unmerciful and I just went to bed for most of the later part of the day and evening day after we sorted our lunch and travel for the next day. Robbie and Alex did get to see some of the silly sports competitions in the evening on the day we arrived and saw the concerts laid on for the festival.

We had to get a flight out, so we got time to see some tombs near the city. We hired 3 motobike drivers to take each of us. The ride there was fab. The drivers took us down these really local shortcuts, which passed by the river and local houses. At one stage we all had to get off the bikes, except the drivers, as we had to cross a monkey bridge or just a step up from it. It was made of bamboo and didn't look too strong. The drivers and bikes made it tho. But the look on my drivers face as he came off was priceless. He didn't like it one bit. Needless to say my driver engineered it so we came home a different way. But it was the best part about Hue. We didn't take to it much otherwise.
5th Jun
We ended up on the same flight as Darren and Kelly, so took a taxi with them to our hotels. We met the meanest taxi driver who kept bringing us to hotels we didn't want then ripped us off by over calculating the dong versus dollar exchange. We were tired and hot and had a journey that took twice as long as necessary so made the mistatke of not calculating it ourselves. Oh well.
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