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With our flight at 1.30pm we awoke at 9am to the sound of our alarms. We left the hostel at 12.15pm - why don't we learn!? Making it to the airport at 1pm we rushed into the airport to find we were in the wrong terminal, deciding to run to the next terminal with our backpacks, we burst through the doors of the domestic terminal exhausted and dripping with sweat. Checking in At lightning speed we ran to security only to find two bottles of hand sanitiser, one full bottle of Ankgor beer, and 3 litres of water in our hand luggage - we love airport security! After being thouroughly frisked we ran to the gate grabbing some essential snacks for the journey, just before the gates closed. Happy and comfy in our planes seats we took off.
Whilst Josh and Miranda made videos about their hangover, and ordered some noodles which they felt far too ill to eat, Nic and Chris made friends with the most amazing Vietnamese guy ever, which ended in him buying us each a drink and having a massive photoshoot of us. We never actually got his name, but the farewell was emotional to say the least.
We collected our bags and headed for a rent a car (which was recommended in all our guide books!) - after a good 40 minute search we eventually found an English speaking worker who told us no car rental places actually existed. We decided to settle for a taxi and after a lengthy debate, managed to get one really cheap, so we were on our way to Hoi An.
The journey went well other than what we were promised to be a brief stop with our taxi drivers friend, zoomzoom. It turned into a 30 minute conversation in which she tried to sell us each 15 suits and marry off Miranda to her eligible brother!
Thanks to the help of our really helpful (but also kinda creepy) friend john, who we met in ho chi Minh, we managed to book some awesome and reasonably cheap accommodation for 5 nights. We had our own PC in our room, the towels had been masterfully folded into swans on each bed and it was HUGE! We dropped of our stuff and headed outside, where we met a woman outside the hotel who we rented motorbikes from. Later on we decided she was actually an annoying b**** - read future blogs for more detail!
We went to the beach mid-afternoon and we all fell in love - it was a tropical paradise, so sunny, White sand, clear 30 degree water, palm trees and a strip of cheap local restaurants on the beach front! Whilst Josh and Nic played wave games in the sea, Chris and Miranda met their new beach babe seller. She spent the first 15 minutes telling them how handsome and beautiful they were until guilt tripping them into buying 2 kooky handmade purses and a packet of mentos by showing us the blisters on her hands from carrying her basket. We sunbathed and played in the sea all afternoon, watched the sun set over the bay and then had dinner in one of the restaurants.
We went back to the hotel, and Josh and Nic went out to get a DVD. While Josh was in the DVD store for half an hour, Nic decided that he must poo urgently. The hotel was too far, so had no choice to go into a very run-down and hostile bar next door. The toilet can be described mainly as a dark closet with a hole in the wall and the floor and walls were covered in dirt. Unable to close the door he gave up and left the door half open to a reasonably busy bar. Running out of time, nic panicked and missed the hole - this was to be the first of many imminent disasters. Trying to correct his error, spotting a useful utensil (a mouldy kitchen brush in the corner) he proceeded "clean up the mess". Little did he know he had disturbed the Godzilla of the cockroach world. Surprise surprise, there was no toilet paper. Spotting a small accounting notebook in the corner, this appeared to be the only option - it was no andrex. It was at the moment that cockroachzilla decided to make his move. Fearing sudden death by cockroach and realising he had filled the hole with accounting paper, upon seeing the sign "under no circumstances put paper in this hole" he hurridely began scooping out the paper with the mouldy brush and the assistance of the mouldy water bucket next to the hole. After admiring his work and realising there was no more possible salvation, he sprinted from the bar and didn't look back. He quickly grabbed Josh from the DVD store and ran back to the hotel to clean himself up.
After a long day we were all very tired, so watched the DVD and drifted to sleep...
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