Leaving Hanoi - 25/5

We had a quiet night in on the 24th ready for a full day of travel on the 25th. We left the hotel and made it to the airport in plenty of time. I scored some duty free aftershave from Kirsten for my birthday which was nice. The flight was delayed out of Hanoi by about 20-30 minutes but then we were off. There was some serious turbulence on the way to Hong Kong, worse than anything we’d been through so far (or perhaps ever), a few people were ill on the flight. Thankfully there wasn't a chain reaction. When we landed we were met by Cathay Pacific staff who advised us that due to the delay we’d missed our connection. We had to wait eight hours for the flight at 10.55pm. We were given a couple of meal vouchers (which didn’t end up going very far as the HK dollar is about six to the Australian dollar) and were set loose in the shopping mayhem that is Hong Kong airport. We didn’t buy too much stuff, just magazines and crap to fill in the time. They had free wireless internet but it took ages so we’ve got a bit of a delay with uploading all the blog stuff. When we finally boarded, the next part of the trip was so crap I scarcely want to relive it! Suffice to say there was someone I was sure had black lung, or at the bare minimum swine flu, in front of us and someone who could snore for the whole of India's cricket team behind us. We finally made it out of customs and were met by our driver having booked some accommodation and a transfer to the hotel in advance (thanks Nick!). Once we checked into the hotel we collapsed into comas at about 3am.