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A boat tour to Halong Bay is meant to be an incredible experience, and I'm not saying that it wasn't...just that it may have been ruined ever so slightly by a Chinese kayaking partner who could neither swim, kayak, nor take instructions on how to kayak, not even after being repeated 15 times by an extremely frustrated British girl (that's me by the way...). I took a leading role on steering and paddling but on stopping for just 30 seconds to take a photo, we would no doubt end up beached or stuck in a rock crevice or on top of another kayak....You can imagine just how ecstatic I was, on returning to the kayak from a beach stop to find that my seat was covered in rocks, shells and coral that apparently was going to make it back over the Chinese border. But yes, my tour to Halong bay was fantastic!!
I had a great evening with some girls from my hostel, treating them to a visit to my favourite restaurant (yummy restaurant, that's the name, no joke) followed by a few games of card and some beverages. The following day, the rain took a turn for the worst and with no working ATM, I spent the day cashless in a cafe waiting for my evening bus, where before I knew it I was babysitting 2 Asian children. I was so so glad to hear that the Vietnamese lady sitting next to me was very travel sick. If you are such a passenger as this, I advice striking up some calming conversation with the person next to you, before announcing, in fact, that you may just chunder on them in the next 5 hours. Hanoi here we come.
The one where my kayak is full of coral
April 26, 2018
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Cat Ba Island, Vietnam
A boat tour to Halong Bay is meant to be an incredible experience, and I'm not saying that it wasn't...just that it may have been ruined ever so slightly by a Chinese kayaking partner who could neither swim, kayak, nor take instructions on how to kayak, not even after being repeated 15 times by an extremely frustrated British girl (that's me by the way...). I took a leading role on steering and paddling but on stopping for just 30 seconds to take a photo, we would no doubt end up beached or stuck in a rock crevice or on top of another kayak....You can imagine just how ecstatic I was, on returning to the kayak from a beach stop to find that my seat was covered in rocks, shells and coral that apparently was going to make it back over the Chinese border. But yes, my tour to Halong bay was fantastic!!
I had a great evening with some girls from my hostel, treating them to a visit to my favourite restaurant (yummy restaurant, that's the name, no joke) followed by a few games of card and some beverages. The following day, the rain took a turn for the worst and with no working ATM, I spent the day cashless in a cafe waiting for my evening bus, where before I knew it I was babysitting 2 Asian children. I was so so glad to hear that the Vietnamese lady sitting next to me was very travel sick. If you are such a passenger as this, I advice striking up some calming conversation with the person next to you, before announcing, in fact, that you may just chunder on them in the next 5 hours. Hanoi here we come.
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The one where I'm unprepared
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The one where I people watch
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The one with the sweaty boys
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The one with the pickled slugs
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The one where I smell
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The one with pacing bears and bamboo grubs
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The one where I might have rabies
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The one with more Pad Thai
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The one with 762 curves
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The one with boobs
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The one with the wall of China
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The one where I'm full
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The one with the "cruise"
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The one with waterfalls
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The one with one too many waterfalls...
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The one where the bird dies
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The one with the Lao Lao
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The one where I discover bangers and mash
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The one with moody views
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The one with a girl, a bike and a big city
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The one where I'm offered a foetus kebab
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The one where I'm really lazy
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The one with dolphins in it
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The one with the virgin chicken
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The one where I eat a lot of pepper
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The one with the minty Carbonara
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The one where there's a bit o splash back
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The one where I'm at one with nature
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The one with the red chair restaurants
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The one with the disappointed tourists
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The one where it's not actually cake
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The one where I wait
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The one where I cross the border
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The one where there are tiny chairs at tiny tables
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The one where I fight with the toilet
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The one where there was "no roast duck" left
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The one with the fashionable poncho's
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The one with the broken scooter
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The one where I eat wild mushrooms
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The one where my kayak is full of coral
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The one with the giggling policemen
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The one where I am reunited with Pad Thai
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The one where everything is extortionate
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The one where I'm a bottomless pit
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The one where I apparently stink
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The one where he melted
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The one where Oasis perform live
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The one where my splinter is sterile
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The one where it comes to an end
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