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Travelled a few hours further south to a pretty UNESCO protected city called Hoi An - all cobbledy streets and French style houses. Caught up with Claire and Lexy again and spent a small fortune on new made to measure clothes... On one day we hired bikes and cycled to the beach about 5 KM away to sit in the sun. Sadly it wasnt to be the relaxing day we'd hoped and dreamed of... first we got into trouble for parking our bikes in the wrong place and got shouted and whistled at by a crazed parking attendent, then it started raining just as we settled in our deckchairs. Tears. Oh well at least we got a beach pedicure instead.
Went for a slightly strange meal with the receptionist from the hotel and were treated to a tasty treat of tiny river snails and poppadoms. They didn't taste too bad, just a lot like river and sand. After 'dinner', she took us on a tour around the town. First stop: A weird church place where we ate bean curd cakes wrapped in leaves. These are the stickiest thing we have ever eaten, kind of like snot in leaves. But again they didn't taste bad, just mainly of goo and bean. Second stop: After we vetoed her attempt to cycle us to a pagoda 10 km in the countryside and in the dark, she took us to visit a sweet shop. Now thats more like it, please. But, instead, we sat on tiny plastic stools on the street which she descibed as the student union and ate our 'sweets'.......Hmm these were glasses full of condensed milk, ice, crystallised fruit pieces and kidney beans! Not a Cadburys snack in sight.
Also ate at a restaurant where the chef was the Chief taster in the Vietnamese Army and you simply eat what you are given....depending on what they are cooking at the time. Complain or question the food and he'll give you a taste of army arse kicking instead. Tim got a telling off for eating his traditional prawn dish with the wrong dip!
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