Hue

Well just like in India we were woken early by our lovely kind friends sleeping below us that thought because they were awake then we should be too. But it wasn’t enough to talk loudly on their phones and each other, stink out the cabin with their breakfast, test out all the ringtones on their phone for the 10th time, they invited in their mates from other cabins to come in and have some tea and chat! Think we must have been invisible! Some how Rudi manages to sleep through some of it but I couldn’t get back to sleep. Anyway our train arrived almost on time only about 15minutes late. We had a guy waiting for us at the train station to take us to the hotel. When we got off it was raining and a little cold but no where near as cold as Hanoi. We arrived at the hotel and checked into our room which is very nice. We got changed and headed out in the rain to do some exploring as we only have today in Hue. We walked across the river and headed to the Citadel where we were greeted by a man on a Cyclo. He told us that the old city was about 10km and he would peddle us around for 150000dong! Since it was raining and we wanted to go on a Cyclo for fun anyway we agreed and boarded the Cyclo! The Cyclo is really made for one person but we squished in and I don’t know how he peddled us! He worked hard for his money! Anyway he took us to Ho Chi Minhs house, some nice gardens, Citadel, Forbidden Purple City and the American War Museum (Vietnam War) We were absolutely drenched by the time we got back and when we paid him he told us that he quoted us for 1hour and we were very long time. We refused to give him anymore as he hadn’t told us at the start and we had already given him extra without him asking which was still not up to his liking. We eventually got the money in his hands and walked off. We headed back to the hotel via a pub where we had a few beers, a shop where we bought a bottle of wine and a detour because we got lost. We have decided since the weather is so yucky outside we are getting room service which consists of a breakfast menu! Oh well its dry and warm in here so we are happy. So that’s us going to enjoy some wine and breakfast and hopefully we can find a good movie on TV. Early night as we have a train at 6:12am…Arghhh!