Bondi Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... of his personal experience fighting in it.This ostensibly appeared as an interesting prospect. However, after he had talked for not even ten minutes, I was already growing restless. This was principally due to the fact that Billy was mental. His long rambling monologue revealed that he had a Phillipina mother and an American father, and had moved to America as a younger man, then shortly afterwards fought in the war on the side of the Americans. It was punctuated by frequent ...

... around to fit more and more people in. When too many glasses were on the table she would say something in Vietnamese and pull a sad face. We ended up having a good conversation with a German couple who got put on out table, recommending sites to visit around HCMC . After a few litres we went back to our hotel to find the gates were locked and to see that they have made the old mother sleep on a camp bed outside ready to be woken up by drunk backpackers.

... At one point, it narrowed so much that Drew had to twist sideways to get through! It's very claustrophobic and about half of our group didn't even attempt them (we also had some fatties who would never have fit!). By the half-way point, it was just me, Drew and another bloke (with the thickest glasses you've ever seen). At the point where Drew was struggling to fit through, the extra guy gave up (there are exits every 10m). It was a lot of fun but pretty scary stuff!

... assuring us that we are on the safest mode of transport, considering they have been canceling flights into Hue and Danang in the last 12 hours.

Anyway… just hoping there isn’t too much of an impact on the towns (and people!) up the coast. Shauna has just found a page which says it’s on orange alert… not sure how that compares with ...

... Hằng năm nơi đây đă
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thăm cồn đảo.



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... been to see her friend in Hong Kong met us at the hotel which we were all very excited about as we'd not seen her since home back in February! Then we got a taxi across town to check into our hostel which turned out to be a lovely arty kitch place where we were up-graded to an en suit room with air con and a massive plasma screen TV! The owner 'Hanh' is lovely but slightly cuckoo... she helped Liz and I blow up ...

... if you light up and if you test positive (which I assume means your body temperature is too high) they quarantine you. It’s all very organized. This masked entrẻ continued as we drove into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). This is the land of motorcycles – Ugandan “boda bodas” have nothing on the Vietnamese scooter. I have never seen so many masked people on scooters in my life people. It is really a ...

... only to realize that this is not dangerous for themselves, their family, or the community!

People have good hearts and will always have. And it sure applies here. And with the growing economy of the last decade, people feel more and more free. We can feel this right here, everyday, on the street. I wish people can keep this positiveness, which can drive to a higher life.

I also wish that environment protection become a priority. Well, here and elsewhere too ...

... everywhere and progress is very slow.

At one of these it seemed that all the townspeople seemedto be lining the street and we were told that a few hours earlier one of the public buses had plunged into the river and everyone in it had perished. Everyone was there in stunned silence.

It was past 8 by the time we got to Saigon os it was a long day.