Hoi An

I have been in Hoi An quite long enough. There's just so much trawling around beautiful old teak shops in the heat that you can do. Time to move on. Which means going on a sleeper bus tonight to Na Trang. I have heard varying reports about these sleeper buses - mainly from very big men who didn't fit into the beds. Since I am five foot seven, I hope that I will fit in OK! They designed these buses for little Vietnamese people, who probably fit three to a bed.

Yesterday I had a chocolate tart. Made with dark, supersmooth chocolate. Heaven only knows where they got the chocolate from. You don't see it in South East Asia at all, mainly because it has to be kept in the fridge to prevent it trickling away in a pool. This was the most divine tart, the first chocolate I have eaten for over two months. And probably the last I will taste for the next month!

Na Trang next stop, then straight on down to Ho Chi Minh city, which I would dearly like to avoid, but the only way to avoid it would be to fly over it, which I do not intend to do. So if I survive the experience, Iwill head straight to the Mekong delta, to explore the islands, before heading into Cambodia.