There is no choice and we were back on the A1 virtually all the way. The journey can be divided into thirds. First third was manic. The second third soothing. The final third manic with knobs on. The traffic was horrendous on first and third with lorries, death wish motorcyclists and suicidal pedestrians everywhere. By some miracle we all made it unscathed to the Novotel to discover that all boat trips in the Bay had been cancelled by the authorities. We heard a couple of reasons, neither of which made real sense; one was that they wanted to inspect the boats for sea worthiness and second that there was a storm coming. If they had said it was too foggy, then we would have agreed as it was almost impossible to see anything while we were ther. Instead we sorted our cars out and prepared them for shipping. On the 15th we were called down to Cai Lan dock at 4.30 which was mercifully short 15 minutes drive. We then sat and sat and sat while they sorted out finding containers. These arrived at 7pm and the cars were then loaded and strapped in.
The next morning the participants headed for Hanoi and then to their various homes and destinations.
So ended the Second Tiger Classic Car Rally.
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