Today was a bit of a disaster. One of those days when not much went right! There is usually one when you travel, especially in a group of 6! The morning started fine, with a bit of last minute shopping in Hoi An, before we left for the famed China Beach. The rain started on the drive to Danang, where we had to call at the Vietnam Airlines to get Louise's ticket, and leave our bags for the day. We should've abandoned the idea then. If only we all didn't have disillusioned thoughts that China Beach would have a cool boardwalk type area with restaurants, shops and cafes (well they were my disillusioned ideas!). The taxi dropped us off at this area that wasn't so glam, so we walked down to the beach to be met by kids and women pesting us, and a beach that was nothing much at all! Admittedly, it is the off-season, and it was raining. But there was nothing bar two beach restaurant things...

So we walked off, towards the Marble Mountains to find another taxi. I bought a marble Buddha in the townish that sold and made everything Marble! Including HUGE statues of Jesus, Mary, lions and Buddhas etc! Very cool! We got a taxi, and asked to go to a different area of beach up the coast more. Again we were met by nothing great, and contractors doing work on the beach front! At the end of our tethers and hungry we asked the driver to take us into Danang. But, no he couldn't, so he dropped us at a round-about for another taxi to get us!

Thinking things couldn't get worse, we get into the city, and get dropped in area of a restaurant we thought we'd try. Of course we couldn't find it, so it was decided that we would walk the 20minutes to another one. It was still raining, and we eventually made it to the restaurant!

Now, in our travels we realised we had passed about 3 Vietnam Airlines! Knowing that if we asked a taxi to take us to Vietnam Air, we'd probably end up at the wrong one, we had to find out which it was! To cut a long story a little shorter, we eventually found out where the airline was, got our bags, made it to the airport, and then made it to Ho Chi Minh! We accepted whatever accommodation we could get just to get the day over, and go for a beer!!