La Paloma Hotel Nha Trang

... all had beer and wine so found it easy to stay awake all night...we all crammed into our room- there was four on each tiny bunk- we had recruited two ozzie men from the cabin next door to squash bugs with flip flops. Went to bed at about 3 and had an hours sleep until our train got in! We were told we wouldn't have our rooms in hotel until 10- but luckily we got them when we arrived!! I'll carry on the rest in the next section...!<br>

... the women who are mostly looking for a new source of income. I was attracted to Lam because of her playfulness and she had a legitimate job.<br><br>I returned home. Lam got hold of a laptop and we Skyped each other all summer. At first I enjoyed our conversations. I got to practice Vietnamese, she got to practice English. I didn't mind that she wanted to Skype me all of her free time, but I had to lie about going to work, I couldn't take more than three hours a day.<br ...

... just finishing of with a nice cold bottle of Bia Ha Noi.<br><br>Sat 18th July<br><br>Up fairly early this morning, about 7:15. Packed bags and breakfast in hotel before having a walk out to lake area.. Bought some stamps near lake as Angela needed to post a card to Martin &amp; Dianne for their Hand Fastening ceremony. Steady walk round and then stopped at lakeside café &#8211; nice cold iced cappuccino.<br><br>Back to hotel to sort out bill etc and arrange taxi to rail station ...

... she loved waited a few days then set out to look for her. Finding her dead, he lay down beside her and allowed himself to freeze to death so they could be together again. When the elderly man realised that his daughter was dead and that the man she loved, loved her so much that he died to stay with her, he vowed never to eat at KFC again, and he never did.<br><br>Our easy rider tour ended in a little town called Mui ne, to be perfectly honest it was a bit of a hole, not the first and ...

... After finally finding a hotel, we set off for a day at the beach. In the afternoon, we decided to walk across the city (it was brutally hot, so the streets were deserted) to a photography gallery that Sean had read about. Unfortunately, he didn't think to read about their hours, and they are closed on Sundays. So we walked back. The highlight of the excursion, however, was that we found a hole-in-the-wall vegetarian restaurant that serves ...

... supposed to be the highlight of her day as well, she grabbed the bottle from the bartender.<br>We laugh as she pours, her boyfriend says it's "too disgusting, 16% alcohol"<br>"Uh huh, who cares?" I'll drink rubbing alcohol at this point.<br>We drink, we laugh at our predicament, Charlene has the most infectious, hearty, genuine laugh I've ever heard.<br>She made me laugh so hard I was crying. The alcohol made me feel a little better.<br>For the record, I am not a big ...

... louts from England which have invaded Thailand. Mostly Vietnamese families and couples keeping themselves to themselves and doing no harm to anybody. Met up with a couple of Kiwis who I traveled with in Laos, so we swapped stories and places to go to where we'd respectively come from. Got a little routine going which involves nothing more than eating, sleeping, drinking, reading, relaxing. Quite nice. So not much else to report other ...

... up a bit of a hill behind a temple. There's loads of people trying to con you out of a bit of cash. Guys saying you've got to give them a couple of dollars to go up the hill, kids trying to sell you post cards that allegedly go to upkeep of the monument, old women doing the same. There's plenty of beggars, one old woman just reaching out making ome sort of noise. You feel bad not giving them anything, especially the kids, but I certainly can't afford ...

... me *nd met us * few times *fer to thr*sh us *t pool *nd get us coconuts from the trees. Spent one very nice *fternoon in some posh hotels swimming pool with priv*te be*ch, no ide* how we didnt h*ve to p*y for th*t but * gl*ss of w*ter cost more th*n enough! *fter meeting up with some of the people we met in h*noi *nd h*ving more (very expensive this time) drunken sh*nn*****ns we decided th*t it w*s time to move on....<br>

... the exchange were actually PHOTOCOPIES! The cheeky b*stards had used a colour copy on the front/back cover, and b&amp;w copies inside! <br><br>So we'd paid them for the pleasure of replacing our new books with copies, and no doubt they will then run off multiple copies of our new books to ...