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Alright my English chums, I'm loving Vietnam it's a crackin country with soo much interestin sights and history. We all went out in Hoi An where they have hundreds of tailor shops where the can make any item out of any material in any design you like. All the lads got suits and the girls got skirts made and I got myself two shirts made one short sleeve cotton and one long sleeve linen, I look the dogs danglys in them and will wear it for me bday bash ha. It was a cushty little set up we went to and they treat you like a king while your there it was quality. After we got measured up for our shirts and suits etc we went by the water and sat outside a bar in the sun where they had local beer on tap that was 5000 dong for a pint which is 14p, we were expecting it to taste like piss but it was honestly good stuff! The streets in Hoi An where they have the restaurants and tailor shops were superb and had a bangin atmosphere but wasn't like a tacky touristy atmosphere it was a traditional town real old school and although the places were newish and modernised it still had an old touch to it and is easily part of my top 5 places I've visited yet. The food there was something else too, beats the food in top quality places back home hands down. I see a man on the streets making stamps the ones you dab in ink and he was making all sorts of designs so I said can you make anything and he said yeah so I said can you make one of my face haha and he said yeah no problem ha so I said yeah I'll have some of that, got me own personal stamp! We done a one way motorbike hire and done the Hai Van Pass run from Hoi An to Hue the run they done on the Top Gear Vietnam special it was superb it took around 6 hours was around 150km from hotel to hotel and the roads in the mountains were quality the views were unreal. We stopped and pulled over several times just to take photos and have a proper look at the views, if you've watched the Top Gear episode you'll know they were impressed and even Clarkson whose a moany b****** loved it, if ya ain't seen it look it up to get a feel of it! We stopped for lunch in a town half way there near Lang Co beach and it was more someone's house than a restaurant they were cookin beef and noodles in a soup so we had some of that it was lovely jubbly. My bike was poppin a treat must have been runnin rich as the exhaust was poppin flames and sounded like gun fire I felt like uncle buck pullin up for lunch. You drive the bikes there and the company come and pick the bikes up from your hotel the other end it was cheap as chips and done it on one tank of fuel which was 100,000 dong which is around £2.80! We chucked our luggage on the mini bus with the others so we dint have to carry anything so was cushty. The four of us done a piss take for our motorbike ride and called ourself the wolf pack ha and when we was out at the bar havin food that night me and 2 of the other lads were at the end of the table with a few Danish lads and the bird we done the ride with was sat at the other end of the table as there was bout 13 of us in total, and one of the Danish lads said woah quick check out that bird her tit has slipped out, I said ah man I can't look she's like family now and she's part of our wolf pack and they rolled up and a geezer in our pack said what we laffin at?! I said a member of our wolf pack is havin a wardrobe malfunction and showin some tit, and he looked down at his chest haha we were pissin ourselves! The Vietnamese here have got a quality sense of humour too, all the info I had before I came here said that the Nam people were more straight faced and serious compared to the rest of South East Asia but I reckon they're a crease up, I went into a bar in Hoi an and asked the bird for a tiger beer and she said "you want small or big?", I said what sizes are they, she said "small very small big very big" haha fair enough I said very big one it is. We done the Vinh Moc tunnels today that were made up for the war back in the day, it was right on the coast and took up to 600 people to shelter from the bombs and live a normal-ish life. They sang songs and even got bands to sing and play music for them like 20 metres below the ground so that they could drown the sounds of the bombing from above. The Americans got wind of the Vietnamese people making underground tunnels but dint know where they were, and they tried to set a base up on an island out from the Vinh Moc tunnels so the Nam boys and women had to keep them from setting up there and was goin hell for leather from the coast and at night tried to sneak over to the island by rowing boats and take them out. Around 60 kids were born under the tunnels during the war and they even set up a maternity area down there. They were all built by hand and took around 3.8 million man hours to make. Were near a town called Dong Hoi in a guest house over looking a huge fresh water lake, they got cold beers bangin food and they footy is just about to start so it don't get much better! Off for a trip by boat to an island tomoro where there's caves to go through and were havin a barby and beers so will be hard work but I've got no choice I have to do it! Today marks my 11th week travelin so only 5 more to go it's going crazy fast! Hope your all good back home, speak soon, guitar hero
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