Every scene is a postcard.

It's our last day in Hoi An today - what a pity. This is such a beautiful little town. We've spent the last couple of days on bicycles - the beach is a flat 4km ride away and the journey there is every bit as gorgeous as the beach itself.

It's probably time to leave Hoi An though as it's a very small town - 80, 000 people... and they all know you within the first three hours. There are more tailor shops than people, and they are all baying for you to come into their shop, just for a minute. We made the mistake on the first day of betrothing ourselves to about a dozen people - for them "maybe later" means "definitely later, and seeing as I am Western and I sweat money, I'll spend millions of dong* in your shop and you can retire early". The first day we said we'd come back to one woman and she followed us around town for the rest of the day - we'd be ordering a beer and she'd pop up behind one of the pot plants to give us a coaster and remind us of our "promise".

Off to Nha Trang overnight - another long bus journey. But we're good at that now.

* spending millions of dong is not all that spectacular, given that 16,100 dong is 1 U.S dollar. Makes for some head-scratching when bartering.