Day 173 (Wed 27 Dec) - Hoi An / Nha Trang

Up at about 10am.

Wandered back to the dress shop so that Jo could pick up her dress. She looks great in it. But will she ever get the chance to wear it!! (Big hint for Sarb!!)

Walked back to the hotel and stopped off for breakfast at Tam Tams. Dropped Jo's dress off at the hotel and continued on our walk of Hoi An.

Crossed the lovely Japanese bridge and into the road beyond it ( [1], [2], [3] ). This road was absolutely full of artists shops. We both felt we could have bought loads of paintings!

Decided we needed to sort out what we wanted to do in Thailand so bought a knocked off copy of Lonely Planet and sat in the hotel lobby planning.

Wandered round town for a while before stopping round at Good Morning Vietnam for another great pizza. Finished up and headed back to the hotel to wait for our bus.

The bus was meant to leave at 6.00pm but still hadn't arrived at 6.15pm. Sarb went next door at the travel agent's to ask what time the bus was due. The woman looked flustered and explained that the bus would not pick us up from the hotel but was instead a few blocks away. She offered to take us there on her moped! So that would have been the three of us, two rucksacks and two daysacks. Not likely!!!

We ended up following her to the bus stop about 10 minutes away carrying our gear.

Got on the bus and tried to find a seat. Unfortunately the only seats available were right at the back that meant that they could not recline!

Spent a very uncomfortable night on this bus as it trundled South. Luckily we had a couple of rest stops so that we could at least stretch our legs!