Our mini cruise

Hanoi and Halong Bay, Vietnam

The busy city of Hanoi wasn’t our favourite place in Vietnam. The friendliness of the locals seemed to completely disappear and everyone seemed to be after our money. One lady hung her basket of fruit on my shoulder and asked for a picture which I’d obviously have to pay for. Another guy ran after Jack pointing at his shoe, he bent down and whipped out a bottle of glue, insisting that Jack needed his shoes repairing. I don’t know whether we were just unluckily picking places to eat but hardly any of the waiters/waitresses smiled and they barely said a word to us. However, having said all this, we only really stayed in Hanoi as it’s the gateway to Halong Bay – which totally made up for it! We spent 2 days on a lovely little cruise ship surrounded by gorgeous scenery. We were taken to one area to kayak between the stunning mountains that protruded from the water. We saw beautiful jellyfish that swam alongside our kayak (good job we didn’t fall in) and visited the biggest cave in Halong Bay(which was pretty damn big). The following day we chilled out on the deck of the boat before having a Vietnamese cooking demonstration.