style place that was doing an all you can eat pizza, pasta and salad buffet for about two quid, any resistance was useless! We were off the hectic streets and sitting down with a cold beer and huge plate of food quick as a flash!!

We were woken early in the small hours to sounds of screaming and shouting outside. Looking out of the window we saw lots of Vietnamese kids involved in what seemed to be some kind of mini riot!! There was a lot of banging and crashing and lots of them seemed to be hitting things with big sticks - I saw one guy knocking hell out of a motorbike with his stick. We were a little worried seeing as we had to leave from outside the hotel in a couple of hours, and wondered what scenes of devastation we would see when we got up. The commotion soon dies down though and we managed to get back off to sleep.

The alarm was set for 5.40 a.m. and we exited our beds with great difficulty due to our very disturbed nights sleep! Fortunately we’d booked a car with the hotel so it was only a matter of stumbling down stairs with our bags and climbing into the back of a big comfy car. The airport is a good 45 minutes away and thankfully at this time of the morning the traffic was reasonable and it was a good way to see the city starting to wake up, of course there were a few markets which were in full swing.

On route we were treated to another difference between southeast Asia and the westerner world and it comes in the form of filling up your car at the petrol station! We stopped off for fuel, the driver got out and had a chat with the petrol pump man and suddenly we realised that he hadn’t turned off the car engine, this seems to be the norm in this part of the world!!! Thankfully the car