9th August: The trip begins.

Not that hungover I went down to the Embassy to collect by new shiny Vietnam visa while leaving Rich to sleep off the Bullfrogs. Did some last minute shopping before heading to the airport at 10pm. We arrived a bit early so our flight number had no gate yet but we went through security checks anyway. An hour later we were told that the flight was cancelled. At first we were disappointed but then we realized that they would have to put us up in a hotel for the night.

We went down to the China Southern office but it was closed and there was no staff to be found. No one in the whole airport could tell us why the plane was cancelled and when we rang the head office of China Southern no one would answer. Since tomorrow is a holy day the office would not be open tomorrow either. We made a quick decision and booked a flight to Beijing the following day. We lost out on 100 euro but our other option was to stay in Dubai for the next China Southern flight which was a week away. We went back to the apartment.

A bad start.