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SAT 4TH JULY HOI AN
WE BOTH HAD A LOVELY MASSAGE AND BODY SCRUB TODAY,MUM AND CAROLINE WOULD LOVE IT HERE.NO NEARBY GOLFCOURSE BUT PROBABLY TOO HOT ANYWAY.SOME OF THE GIRLS GOT MOTORBIKE TAXIS TO A WELL KNOWN BAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER-ONLY TO FIND OUT IT WAS CLOSED FOR RENOVATION WORK.SOME KIND OF ARGUMENT ENSUED AS APARENTLY IT HAD BEEN CLOSED FOR SOME TIME AND THE RIDERS KNEW THIS.GOOD JOB I WASNT THERE AS I WOULD NOT HAVE PAID THEM!
SUN 5 ANOTHER DREADED FLIGHT!
AT LEAST ITS OUR LAST FLIGHT PROBABLY UNTIL OCTOBER.BETTER PLANE(IT HAD PROPER ENGINES!)BUT VERY ROUGH LANDING THROUGH RAIN CLOUDS.NOT GOOD FOR ME AS I FLEW STONE COLD SOBER(EARLY FLIGHT)MIMI,OF COURSE,SLEPT.
SAIGON,OR HO CHI MINH CITY AS IT IS KNOWN NOW,IS SURPRISINGLY QUITE DIFFERENT FROM HANOI.THERE IS STILL THE MAD TRAFFIC AND CRAZY MOPED RIDERS BUT AT LEAST THERE ARE PLACES WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY WALK WITHOUT TOO MUCH FEAR OF BEING RUNDOWN.WE HAD A CYCLO TOUR(THINK RIOKSHAWS)AROUND THE CITY WHICH WAS GREAD FUN.THE FOOD IS EXCELLENT AND CHEAP.
FOUND INTERNET WITH SKYPE AND SPENT 3 HOURS CATCHING UP WITH EVERYONE-THE COST FOR 3 COMPUTERS FOR 3 HOURS? 50,000 DONG-ABOUT TWO POUNDS!
SAW BAD MOPED ACCIDENT ON WAY BACK TO HOTEL-GUY JUST RODE INTO BACK OF PARKED CAR.PEOPLE RUSHED OVER TO HELP HIM TO HIS FEET.HE IMMEDIATELY GOT ON HIS MOPED,OVERBALANCED AND FELL OVER WITH THE BIKE CRASHING DOWN ON TOP OF HIM.AT THIS POINT I REALISED HE WAS DRUNK OUT OF HIS MIND.AGAIN HE REMOUNTED HIS BIKE,STARTED IT AND PULLED OUT STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF A CAR JUST MISSING IT.HE VEERED ALL OVER THE ROAD AND OFF INTO THE NIGHT-UNBELIEVABLE.
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