First flip flops and first beach of 2005 today..Hue took 12 hours to get to from Hanoi, thats an extra degree an hour I reckon. I hired a bike and didn't get lost despite not having a map, luck was on my side today. I'm not too well prepared for heat though, ended up buying a hat with a string on the way, it did the job but I look like I'm on safari now. The cycling took me through a number of villages by the riverside, and provided me with a good few 'hello's' but they can say it more normally here instead of the annoying 'helloooo' in China which sounds like what your grandma would say if you suprised her on her doorstep. There's a dog AND a small child under my chair. There are conical hats everywhere- Hue is famous for producing them so it's a possibility I will be coerced into buying one..