hi mike thanks for the comment - sort of forgot about this blog...might have to come up with a new theme for a brand new blog one of these days...this was a beautiful place in D1 near the reunification place...
ponchos and cliff edges ah yes i remember creepy italien man who felt your thigh.must ask my housemate why italian's are creepy...they do have tight pants tho...anyway that poncho is essential equipment in the tropics darling!!i may look idiotic but couldn't you leave out the american bit?!
yen is awesome!! yes i know three blogs is luxurious for you but it was Tet and everywhere was shut so i went slightly mad etc...i fear i'm after spoiling you!august is too late dude - i'm finito in july and i'll be here till the end of the month travelling s.e. asia maybe with tanya and sue?!i'll keep you updated!
I decided to avoid your blog and low and behold I was greeted with 3 posts! I was so excited! I really like the sound of Yen, maybe you oculd write her biography for her? huh huh huh. I have seen those ants, they are everywhere, you really have to be clean with your crumbs kate! I have also experienced teh joy of paying 1euro for a bag of groceries, that is the life. Saving to head over in August. :):):)
great blog, Kate Just want you to know your blog is not going to waste. You have seen more of Vietnam that I ever have. Do you notice the dialect change when you are in central vn ? Even though they use the mostly same words, their accents are freaky. I tell you listening to the English makes more senses than the central viet. I am glad you have a nice Irish singing tone. I am holding all Irish women to that high standard of a voice from a woman I never met. So please don't embarrass your stereotype and shatter my fantasy.
ponchos and scary roads am absolutely disgusted that you finally gave in and went for the yank look of the full body poncho!
also your travels brings back the memories of the roads/on the edges of cliffs that took us to Croatia, and also on the train the time that the really creepy man was rubbing his legs up against us and pretending it was accidental!
letter on the way to you btw
nice to know someone is reading my ramblings hi random blog reader,
you are right English has many idiotic rules that add little value to the language as a whole, serving only to make the learning process for non-native speakers that much more challenging. however, all languages have their own difficulties - i'm learning basic Vietnamese and although i can understand some of it, when i say anything i generally have to say it in six different tones. it helps that i'm an irish women though as i do singing tone very well! oh and we havn't put up with the English for a very long time now...not since 1921 or something ;) we laugh at them and their silly logic still
Hi Kate, it's your random blog reader again. It is quite understandable that Yen mixed up her tenses. Don't know if you are aware that vietnamese does not have verb tense conjugate and plural or singular. Even after learning English for 30 years, I still having trouble with them. I am telling you the English are crazy, they have so many rules. Don't know how you Irish put up with them. Just kidding. In real life, I never met an Irish woman though I had a opportunity to talk to one customer representative in Ireland somewhere. She had a beautiful voice, she talked like she was singing.
cheers and cam on hi 'random blog reader', thanks for the name of the game...and i thought i was spot on with my rice shaking theory...by the way, not all Irish women have the gift of talking like me - only the ones with the rare leprechaun blood and family history of madness.
dice game Hi Kate, the game that the guy was playing is called Ba^u` cua ca' cop, roughly translated squash, crab, fish and tiger although the tiger is not actually on the board. It is a dice game but instead with normal western dices it has the pictures of those animals. It is a type of gambling normally play during lunar new year. You place a bet on one of those animal, if the dice roll that you win, if you have 2 dices or 3 dices with same animal you double or tripping your winning. Don't lose your shirt over it.
I love the way Irish women talk.
chuc mung nam moi kate! as always your blog is highly entertaining! I'm just back from new year in barcelona, always a bit wird celebrating in another country, hows your travelling going
Merry Christmas Kate, Hope you enjoyed it, was delighted that you FINALLY updated us on whats going on! I was thinking of heading back out in August but I know you'll be home by then, I'm not kidding when I tell you that i think about Vietnam every single day! Have a great New year since I wont be on until You update again!!! love, keira
Tis Bin Laden Now everything becomes clear as to why you went so far away. You say your farther is not Bin Laden. I can tell you now that I saw him in his night shirt on the 24th pretending to be Santa! Santa my arse I thought, Bin Laden yes! How clever your pee-and-knees kids are. If your dad is Wheelie Bin who is your mother? Maybe she is Mary Hardknee the health person.
Regards the bump's Granddad H R H Lord Ha Ha
Scaricity of blog So many people are asking about and for you and they are like me who dont use the email so well ,please update this wonderful blog and share all with us even if your main supporters are your parents, love dad!
hi keira
i will write soon - it's just this little silly thing called work that is keeping my extremely busy!!i'm going to be travelling in december/jan so there will be more soon!!how's ireland? it doesn;t feel xmassy here its too hot!
Hi Kate The joys of college life. I can read your long blogs all at once. C told ya you'd get married. Hope he has plenty money!!! Look forward to hearing you speak fluent Vietnamese when you get back. LOL. Take care
Greetings Hi Kate
So glad your enjoying it. Spoke to your dad the other day about the floods out there, he said you were safe enough.
Will keep checking out your travel blog, good luck with the scooter, you can give the taxis a scsre, payback time lol.
DECEMBER 2009: for the sake of sentamentality, im simply unable to eraze my original profile entry i wrote in 2008 before i caught travel bug. While looking at it now makes me cringe at all the evidence of my innocence and (verbal flatulence), I have an equal sense that were it to be updated/edited it would no longer represent the truth. Have a look at the map for more information as to where i travelled during/after my time in Nam and where I ended up! Enjoy!
AUGUST 2008:
friends, you have come to the right place
woohoo my very own travel diary! this will solve everything!
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hi mike thanks for the comment - sort of forgot about this blog...might have to come up with a new theme for a brand new blog one of these days...this was a beautiful place in D1 near the reunification place...