Last night we had an early night as we were all so knackered. This morning we had breakfast overlooking the bay, then we had the return journey back to the mainland. On the boat we played cards with an Australian couple and had a cracking lunch which consisted of; rice, noodles, sweet and sour chicken, beef something, calamari, deep fried baby sweetcorn, deep fried onion and deep fried mushrooms, it was lush. A 2 and a half hour drive back to Hanoi where we were dropped of at the bus station. Our next bus left at 18.00 and was meant to get into Ninh Binh at 20.30 but it took just an hour and 40 minutes. The bus itself literally was the Knight Bus from Harry Potter, there was 3 rows of bunk beds, about 24 in total, on a standard coach. Somehow I think we might be travelling by them more often! We found a hotel in the guide book but couldn't actually find it so we just chose another one, George and I are in a twin room whilst Rob has a double to himself. We went out for dinner, another meal of street food, we couldn't understand a word on the menu so randomly picked 3 things, the chicken kebab like thing was nice, the spicy chicken wings were nice but the hard boiled duck eggs weren't so appetising they had partially formed chicks in them, although this didn't stop George and Rob eating a couple.
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| The Knight Bus |
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