Dong An Beach Hoi An

... posed with her fruity paraphernalia charmingly. I continued west for a short while along Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, and took photographs of the street and several attractive houses down this way. Then, retracing my steps over the bridge I headed back to the river and then crossed a small bridge onto An Hoi island on the the opposite side of the river. I took a photo of a rather endearing yet gnarled old man rowing his boat in the river, and he asked for money so I threw him down a small ...

... person, i.e. - not very long! Most of our "sleeper" bus was spent wide awake due to the constant beeping of horns and bright car lights coming in the other direction.....doesn't make for a good night's sleep! We are now equipped with some Diazepam pills which you can buy over the counter in Vietnam and knock you straight out within 5 minutes!<br><br>Our sleeper bus took us to Hoi An which is well known for its highly professional Tailors. As soon as we ...

... is essentially what Bia Hoi is. We stopped and had a few, tasted good and was cheap. 10p per glass, bout ½ pint. <br>After a hard day of shopping, eating, swimming and drinking we soon retried to our damp room for the night. <br><br>Suit TryingWe were up till late deciding where we wanted to go in Vietnam, realsing we don't have much time left we decided we would leave Hoi An and move onto the next stop Nha Trang. There is no train from Hoi An so you have to go to Da'nang, but the ...

... bought and added later but the heels were a problem. So after a little bit of a wobbler partly due to the woman&#8217;s attitude and partly due to the quality - I appreciate time was short but she had persuaded us the day before that that wouldn&#8217;t be an issue. The boots were returned to the tailors and we returned to the hotel. Our taxi picked us up and on the way out of Hoi An we picked up the boots. Not perfect but closer than they had been we handed over the remaining money and ...

... had the offer of twenty second-hand computers, from a German supporter, whose university department was updating. The problem was that we had to organize, and pay for, freight. Mark contacted a lot of freight and logistics companies operating in Viet Nam and found it was extremely problematic. For one thing, the Vietnamese government doesn&#8217;t want other countries dumping discarded products in the country, there would be mountains of paperwork and costs (demanded ...

... guests to a Cham Islands day, in a boat from the company her father owns and she works for. Of course, we gratefully accepted her generous offer and spent a wonderful day: boat trip, snorkeling, swimming, lunch on the beach, visiting a fishing village and pagoda. There was Mark&#8217;s sister, Paula, our friends, Gordon and Glenda, Tu and Phuong, and us. It was a lovely day, especially considering our guests had only been here a couple of days.<br><br>The workshop was visited by ...

... wouldn&#8217;t eat the wooden fish, of course, but its presence made them feel their meal was complete. They dipped vegetables into the fish sauce believing the wooden fish actually gave the sauce an authentic fish flavor. They picked up the scallions and ginger with their chopsticks believing to have also picked up some fish, with that they scooped rice into their mouths. And this made them feel not so poor.<br><br>This story and the one before ...

Xin Jow<br><br>While in Hoi An I found out about a place called "Jungle Beach" ... it sounded like the perfect place for us to stop and take a vacation from vacation. The only catch was that we had to get off the night bus an hour from our final destination of Nha Trang, but we told the bus driver where we wanted to get off, and set the alarm in case he forgot (for our predicted time of arrival).<br><br>All of a sudden at 4am the bus stopped on ...