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Thursday 19th November - After a very sad goodbye to Messi we boarded our sleeper bus to take us onto Nha Trang - this took 11 hours to get to, however not much sleep was had, and after this amount of time on a bus with a toilet that doesn't work, you are glad to get off at the other end!!
Arrived in Nha Trang - Friday 20th November - 6.30AM!!!!
It was absolutley sheeting it down by the time we had arrived and RAT had a slight issue in the fact that we could not seem to locate our bags, some people were staying on the bus to move further south and so Only a few bags got taken off, we were not the only ones!! After a bit of fishing for them (which entailed us moving other peoples rucksacks before we could get to our own!) we finally found them, great!! Now all we need to do is find a place to stay, Messi had told us about a place called "Good Hotel" sounds Good - ha ha pardon the pun!!!
So we located a taxi driver and he took us to a place called King town hotel!! Ok not the Good hotel, we managed to negotiate a very good price they orginally wanted 20-35 US Dollars, we got them down to 13 USD (not incl breakfast) but then RAT have not been surfacing before midday anyway, due to all the late nights and very slight alcohol consumption!! Checked in and taken to our room, bellboy - oh dear I think this i what you call Flashpacking!! V. nice room, and their was a swimming pool on the roof, not that you needed that, you could have swam in the street with the constant down pour - OK we definetley did not order RAIN!!!!
Safely checked in T had a little snooze and R went onto the internet, oh what to do without Facebook!!!!
We explored the town a little and had some lunch, not really alot to do when it is pouring with rain, so a bit more tinternet surfing before getting changed for our first nights experience of Nha Trang!!! Ended up at a little cocktail bar called " The Blue Gecko" met 3 really lovely Irish guys, Graham, Shay and Ray, they had only just arrived and asked us where is good to go, obviously we didn't know but we had heard of a place called the "The Beach Club" run by Aussies, so finished our drinks, but this this point we were all well on our way!!! The beach club was cool, a mixture of locals and tourists a really good vibe, we danced the night away (well....when in Rome), god know's how many buckets later we left the beach club, and headed to a place called "Why Not" which we had also heard was a good party place, by this point it was about 3.am, not too many people in here but I suppose to be expected at this time of morning!!! Left here about 4.30am, then when we got back to the hotel, we skyped Ma n Pa, drunk sluurrrs of I love you, Miss you etc!! Not too sure they could make out what we were saying, but at least they could see us, even if they couldn't understand us!!!
Saturday 21st November - Still rubbish weather, however; as RAT did not get to bed until 6.30am we did sleep the majority of the day, I guess it is to be expected in the party centre!!! Met up with Graham, Ray and Shay again, but did not stay out too long, was absolutely knackered and decided to Skype Ma n Pa in a relatively sober state this time!!
Sunday 22nd November - Now it is not raining however; still no sun - erm what is going on!!!
Still no opportunity to layze on the beach! RAT decided to wander down to the beach even to take a few pics for the albums, just to prove we had actually been here and more to the point had seen daylight!!!! Went to "Why Not" for some lunch, and T bought a bikini (not sure when she will get to wear it though!) After this RAT decided it was time for a bit of pampering as we have decided that we are both suffering with SAD - we miss the sun, and our tans are fading by the minute!!! we needed rejuvanating - we found this little massage place that we ended up having a Vietnamese massage, and our nails and toes painted, very proud of our negotiating skills we managed to reduce the price from 260,00 Dong - to 220,000 Dong - However......until we gave a tip it was very difficult to leave, so the 40,000 discount became a 60,000 tip - so in fact we ended up paying more!!!!! Damn it!!! Now we are annoyed!!!!! We made a quick exit, the next person that asks us to buy something does not know what they are letting themselves in for!!!!
After calming down and being slightly ripped off, we came back to the hotel and grabbed a bite, before donning our glad rags for the final time in Nha Trang, well when we say glad rags - we mean creased clothes and flipflops!!!! Headed to "Why Not" bar again had a couple of Buckets and ended up meeting up with the Irish guys, before heading over to The Beach Club, for our final drunken rampage, fun times had, loads of pics taken, which we will upload as soon as we can find a pc that works properly!!! The Beach club closes at 2.00am so we headed back to Why Not, for a final boogie till 4.am, and then grabbed a street vending baguette before heading down to the beach for a drunken paddle!! Well R paddled and nearly got taken out by a huge wave, she got absolutely soaked, but it had to be done!!!!!!!!
Our final day you guessed it.... still no sun, hence the length of the blog!!!
We are headed to Mui Ne tonight, the sand dune surfing capital at 7.30pm - we wonder what this town will bring..................
That's all for now folks
Love to All
RAT
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