Day 12 - 20/07/25

 Had a very lazy start to this morning after a long night of drinking the night before. Unfortunately the Vietnam bad luck spinner landed on Jagan today, as he woke up with a bad toothache and couldn’t have breakfast. Dan went to a banh mi place in town, so I went and had breakfast by myself at a nearby restaurant.

After being served the biggest pile of chicken and rice I’ve ever seen, I slowly meandered back to the AirBnb. After relaxing a little more in the afternoon, we headed out to Hoi An for dinner.


We ate at a very local restaurant and we were the only non-Vietnamese people there. The food only cost £1, and definitely tasted like it as the chicken was full of bones and the noodles tasted like shoelaces! 

After ruining my shoes in Sapa I had been walking everywhere in flip flops and my feet were in agony so I decided to go and get a foot massage. I had a nice conversation with an Australian man getting a massage next to me, although every now and then he would let out a moan mid-sentence which made it a little awkward. Feeling refreshed, the 3 of us ended up drinking in the same bar we went to the night before as it was the only one that wasn’t blasting Pitbull through the speakers at full volume!
As we were basically the only people in the bar we pretty much had a conveyor belt of beers being delivered to us all evening (my worst nightmare). We decided to stop before the night got out of hand as we had a bus to Hue the next day, so we headed home rather early and got a good night’s sleep.




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