Well, we finally made it. Waiting at Saigon domestic airport, 333 beer in-belly, for our flight to Hue.
Updates may be sparse for the next week[1. I think I’ve scheduled a post tomorrow… no, wait. It was the previous post. About Gmail. ], but I know you can wait it out. I’ll allow you to stray if need be — 50km rule and all that — but I’ll expect your attention again starting next week.
Speak ‘ron
Barto
Day 1, Getting to Hué
- Paperwork
- Car, plane, wait, plane, car
- The Shining
- Tea which tastes of the milk after you’ve eaten all the Froot Loops
- Cyclo x2
- Rice crepes, spring rolls, pizza, 333
- Followed by cyclo x2
- Thwarted shakedown attempt
- Refuse to go down for international power adapter
- Sleep
Day 2, Hué
- Tennis
- Swim
- Poached egg, toast, bacon, fruit, yoghurt, coco pops!
- Gecko
- Cycle
- Citadel
- Drink water
- Cycle more
- Drink more water
Phở“Kem”- Pool (with water)
- Pool (with cues)
- Rendang jerky, local beer no.2: Festival
- Nina’s, local beer no.3: Hue Beer
- Cyclo-free walk
- Complimentary water
- Sleep
Day 3, Hué to Hoi An
- Wake
- Phở, fruit, yoghurt, French toast, vegemite roll
- Sleep
- Tennis
- Swim
- Shana & Elias
- Checkout
- Walk, fall, blood, doctor, foamy disinfectant, bandage, ok
- Local beer no.4: Huda
- Banana crépe
- Cyclo, peak hour
- Swim
- Goodbye to new friends
- Hué train station, delayed, wait, wait, wait
- Finally, train, air con
- Vultures
- Taxi
- Disappearing gecko
- Midnight burgers
- Sleep
Day 4, Hoi An
- Bumblebees
- Crepes, cinnamon sugar
- No WiFi in our room, ethernet plug in the toilet (!!)
- Vulture laundry women
- 9 pieces of bespoke clothing, shoes, mended sandals
- $2.50 cocktails!!!, free wifi
- A bridge
- Conical headgear made from straw (x2)
- More $2.50 cocktails
- White rose wantons
- Pool
- Local beer no.5: Biere Larue
- Sleep for 10 hours
Day 5, Hoi An
- Vietnamese Independence Day
- Cycle
- Beach
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- Local beer no.6: Saigon
- Dancing dragon
- Cycle home (I won the cow game)
- 38 minutes x $2.50 cocktails
- Hot pot
- Balcony rats, geckos eating bugs, geckos eating geckos, piggy-backing toads
- Storm
- Temple Grandin, autism, cows
- Sleep
Day 6, Hoi An
- Massage
- Cycle
- Pottery barn
- Cycle home (I lost the cow game)
- Pool, omnivorous dilemmas, BBQ, beer, storm
- Balcony, dilemmas of the omnivorous ilk, snooze
- Sunset cruise (minus sunset), free-flow booze, canapés
- Eggplant hot pot with pork
- Room service banana fritters
- 90 minutes I’ll never get back
- Promises
- Alarm set for 5:20am
- Sleep
Day 7, Hoi An to KL
- Wake, shower, dress, pack, checkout, 30 mins
- Breakfast packs
- Taxi to Da Nang airport
- Fly Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh, babies crying in front, on left, and behind
- Mediocre Airport phở
- This is the waiting room
- Fly Ho Chi Minh to Kuala Lumpur, babies crying all round
- Quick exit through immigration, temporary Malaysian passports
- Taxi home
- Relax
Loved Day 3’s first three bullets.
Yeah, was a pretty good day at that point.