...and then it rained. We feel like you blog-readers are now getting your revenge back on us. It's very much like a true English summer; it won't stop raining. (although it's still warm enough to walk around in shorts and t-shirt.) Hoi-an itself is a very French feeling town. It's colonial in style, but the "frenchness" is different to the "English" colonial style of India. Yellow pained walls everywhere, balconies in need of repair, bars on the windows. The town sits on a river and is very picturesque. ( I Remeber reading once that although Britain has a terribl;e world reputation for rain, it tends to rain more in France than the UK!) The town is famous and noted for is clothes making. The town is full of shops which display the latest editions of Elle,
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