What happened next

I threw my back out, hence I was off the email and blog for such a long time. I think it was from the diving and lifting all the equipment about - my back just got knackered and refused to do anything. I really wanted my chiropracter!

Spent a couple of days in bed doing nothing and shuffling about, then gave in and went to a local doctor. He massaged my back with tiger balm and wanted to give me an injection. I refused. I didn't know what he was giving me and the place was dirty! Oh man...

It was still bad though, so I ended up going to the local hospital which was much better. They told me they were not able to crack my back which was the only thing that I knew would help, but they insisted on taking an x-ray. It was an OK hospital and they had me in and out of x-ray in 10 minutes! Wish the NHS was like that... I paid a tenner for the whole thing and found out that I did not slip a disc. Yay! But I knew that anyway...

They recommended that we should go on to Hanoi as they have a bigger hospital there if it gets worse, so as we were planning on going there anyway, we booked on the next train and are off to Hanoi in the north of Vietnam.