Top ten things to do in a strange city (when your boyfriend's left you, and then some prick stole your wallet, so you have no money, actually you have 100,000VND ($5) that you found in your washbag, but it's strictly reserved for food, and you know that if you went out and talked to some backpackers they'd buy you a drink, but that makes you feel a bit sick because when the skinny little girl comes around trying to sell them a fan or a packet of chewing gum they ignore her, oh and your passport's somewhere floating in the Vietnamese postal service)

• Walk barefoot in the sand and collect shells.


• Volunteer teaching an English class. This was the best thing I did today. And managing to get through a 90 minute class, without being told I had emotional issues, was a confidence boost. I'm going back tomorrow.


• Go sea swimming. I set myself the challenge of swimming to the buoy marking the limits of the swimming area, but when I got there I discovered it was a lobster pot, and that I'd swum past the limit way back.


• Wandering. A lot of wandering.


• Go look around shops you'd never shop in even if you had money - "Oh yes, I'm really interested in buying this $200 Vietnamese national dress. I think the fluorescent pink colour would make me look really authentically Vietnamese."


• Buy 1.5kg of mangoes for 10,000VND (33p). Eat nothing else.


• Play with the hotel owner's baby grandson. Fantasise about having your own Asian baby (only joking...maybe...)


• Make friends with a xe om driver called Delboy, and oblige when, after hearing what's happened, he offers to give you a free lift to the English school.


• No money for suncream? You're going to get a great tan, whether you want to or not.


• Write your blog.

In conclusion, today has been a much better day than yesterday, but still not half as fun as when Dung was here. I want to meet people but I don't know how.