They did not speak one word Vietnamese

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Met yesterday in a restaurant a father( dutch) and his two sons (austrian).The sons owned the restaurant, bit mix between Vietamse and european with a worldfamos, at least in Hoi An, Austrian cook.
Good food, good concept only on the wrong side of the river where you only found it by chanche if you crossed the river what no so many people did

The boys, mid twenty, were living in Vietnam for almost 4 years but id not speak one word Vietnamese.

Father is worse, he lives and works as project developer for 14 years in Saigon and does not speak Vietnamese either.

We talked about the houses, only about 4 metre width. It s all because of history. In ancient times the tax was less with building in this way so all the ground people ownes for housing in innercities and villages is 4.20 metre width. So when you buy an house or piece of land in most places you cannot buy more than the 4.20m However in length you can built some times almost limitless .Houses up till 30 or even 40 metre in length.

Raining again and waiting for transport to the station.

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Photos

Chinese lanterns
Hoi An

waste management
Hoi An old city

4 metre width houses
Ho Chi Min city

some other 4 metre width houses
With this kind of building, sometimes up to 40 long you run a chance to have a hotel room without window