Hong Hoa Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... Just about mounted an expedition, in an attempt to secure his place on the top bunk. I witnessed him fumbling at first, with his pack and searching for footholds to lever himself up to what looked from down below, to be quite a perilous climb. It may have taken him a few goes but he eventually got there. However, he didn't seem to find much room between where he lay his head and the roof of the compartment. I on the ...

... first lady’s lounge… to the to die for 60’s decor gaming room, complete with bar straight out of Mad Men.

And the design, an architecture freak's must see! The vertically louvered widows behind the sculptured formed concrete columns, providing shade whilst allowing cross ventilation through the whole palace, (and we like to claim it’s a new 'green’ design concept).

After ...

... 3 or 5 are forced to stay there for days.
The rest of the day we spend at the main market, Benh Tanh market, just walking about and picking up a few things before catching an early night as we leave early tomorrow morning. We also try and get to a post office to send a parcel home, rushing across town (I regretted wearing flip flops for that..) to find a dark building even though the books said It wasn't closing for another hour...typical..

... e is a numb** missing at the end, I am n*t g*ing t* be returning t* the past via my tardis t* hang *ut with Zha* Tu* the Chinese c*nqu**** wh* c*ns*lidated Âu Lạc int* Nanyue in 207 BC (thanky*u WIkipedia). This didn't fly. I tired t* blame the c*mpany wh* *rganised it f*r emailing it t* me with*ut the end numb**s *n. Like Ansett, this didn't fly any m*re than the *th** excuse did. Aft** ****ing ab*ut with the wireless in the airp*rt, then using my *wn, calling ...

... absolutely beautiful; very colorful, decorated with images of lotus flowers, and mythical creatures like dragons and phoenixes. We arrived just in time to witness a noon ceremony in which followers sit on the immaculate tiled floors in neat, organized rows and columns. Followers are dressed all in white, sit crossed legged, and chant and meditate to the sounds of a soothing group of musicians and singers seated in an alcove above the main hall. Some ...

... touts from two rival bars (Go2 and Crazy Buffalo - competing for our custom yet amusingly owned by the same company!) trying to get our patronage and giving us increasingly better drinks offers. As we were a little drunk, we decided to play around with them a little - some of them were quite funny. One guy claimed he'd killed Michael Jackson (who'd died the day before)! A really camp guy kept coming up to me to try to tempt me into his bar! [Rich: We came to know some of these ...