The Bro Trip

This morning we left our quiet and cosy beach to go to the city of Hue, 700km south of Hanoi. Instead of having the chaos we had getting to Cat Ba, we actually knew where to buy tickets this time. We had talked to the owner of a bar in the middle of Cat Ba. A kiwi guy that owns the place, but isn't around that much, so we were lucky to have a chat with him. He recommended us this place so we bought tickets from a company on Cat Ba that took us by bus to the ferry, then after the ferry we just changed bus to one that took us straight away to Hanoi. Awesome. And we had some really good company all the way to Hanoi too, so that made the trip even better. Thanks for that! :)

Though the day didn't start that good. The alarm rang 6:30, which meant we only slept for 3½ hours. Was kind of a late night last night. We went to the only place where people on Cat Ba goes to have a late night drink, a small bar on the third floor of a restaurant. Cosy place with a pool table and a fussball table. Not so much people though. But we had lots of fun, cause we saw both Danny De-Vito and Sam Worthington there! Well, at least their look-alikes. Especially Sam Worthington (whos real name was Dean), he was like a clone! And aussie too of course :P He tried to get the bartender, who was half his size, drunk by taking shots together. It ended with Sam almost falling off his chair and his girlfriend had to take him home. Then we met some other people, played some pool and went to the beach 3am to have a last beer. Kinda hungover when we woke up. That sucked. Breakfast and a showe helped, luckily. Then we had our nice bus/ferry/bus trip and now we're in Hanoi again. We went to a booking office to get so called Open Tour Bus tickets to Saigon. Those tickets are valid for a month, so we can take the bus, get off somewhere, spend a couple of nights there and then jump on the bus the day we want and continue our trip south. Really handy.  We have like 5 stops planned or at least we can if we want. We'll see. Anyways, our first stop is Hue, which is the old capital of Vietnam. We'll try to update tomorrow evening after we get there and find a hotel and so on. Sorry no photos today, haven't taken any lately. Shame on us! We'll be better, we promise ;)