oh my head

22/4/11

Oh god package tours suck. We were roused at 730 am for breakfast. We made it but not all of the group did. Either way we were all out of our accommodation by 8.30 as it was time for the next day’s activities. Most were heading back to Hanoi so we agreed to meet up the following night. We on the other hand were headed onto a bus and taken to Cat Ba but on the way the bus stopped and our guide said "now you walk up the mountain!” We duly obliged and engaged in an hours steep up hill clime in flip flops. By the time we got to the top we had sweated out all of the previous nights excess and were somewhat out of puff and most certainly shown up by our guide who at 60+ was not even sweating!

Once we were safely aboard the bus we were delivered to our hotel where it was lunch time. We then returned to our room for a quick lie down which turned into the rest of the day watching TV. Now we are sure Cat Ba was lovely we just never saw it.


23/4/11

Again we were roused early for breakfast and then it was back on the Junk for some more sailing before being delivered back to the bus for the trip back to Hanoi. At this point a vague memory of a plan to meet up with the Irish and Scottish group surfaced in our minds. Oh god what had be agreed to oh god we are old as surly a hangover should not last 2 days. Anyway we rationalized we were just tired from the combined effects of trekking traveling and the beer filled night and were actually still young a virile. That said not young enough to actually go out for another nights drinking. Once back at the hotel we emailed the group, organising a rematch for the following day and slunk into our pits for a nice long nap