Blogs from District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast, Vietnam, Asia - page 18

Well what a night - I had so many weird dreams this Asian air must be getting to me. Off to get our beef noodle soup for breakfast again as we have become regulars they are waiting for us, ha ha. The orphanage was ok today not a lot to report. Just been to the night market - not good as day market so back tomorrow. Had spaghetti (yes very vietnamese!). Whilst me and the girls were in a shop, Mike got propositioned to go to a hotel room - he declined as expected but I think he was quietly pleased, ha ha I am going to log off now as nothing real to report - will take some pictures tomorrow Hope everyone is ok PJ and Mike... read more

Well up early this morning to get ready for our first day at the disabled orphanage. We went for breakfast first off to the place near our guest house - when all they had was rice dishes decided this was not for me not rice in the morning. So off we trot and I find a little place which is in the local market so I plonk my bum down and shout to Mike this looks ok. So we ordered Pho Bo which is noodle soup with bean sprouts and beef in. They also give you fresh herbs, chilli, lime and you put chilli sauce in. I am getting used to this now as it the Vietnamese staple breakfast - so you must be saying to yourself why is rice not for you in the morning ... read more

Voila plus de quatre mois que je suis a Saigon, et voila plus de quatre mois que je veux mettre ce blog a jour, mais pour de nombreuses raisons, je n’ai jamais pu trouver le temps jusqu’a maintenant. Il faut dire que mon arrivee a Saigon a été tres occupee. Déjà niveau boulot, comme je continuais l’activite que je faisais a Phnom Penh, il n’y a pas eu de periode de transition, et il me fallait continuer sur le meme rythme, ce qui, comme avant, implique pas mal de voyages dans la region, et déjà plusieurs retours a Phnom Penh d’ailleurs. Et aussi niveau personnel, il fallait bien sur m’installer, prendre mes reperes, rencontrer des gens, et decouvrir un peu la ville et le pays, et l’air de rien, ca prend du temps tout ca, mais ... read more

Well breakfast in Cambodia lunch in Vietnam. Up not so early this morning which has been a real treat as our flight is not until 14.15 today. Down to breakfast and I know I did the cooking course but how come everytime I put toast in the toaster when the toast popped up someone knicked it and I had to start again. After the 3rd time of this decided that I would guard the toaster like a hawk and I was not going to be done again. Ordered my egg and guess what again someone else takes it - even the lady cooking the eggs looked at me and giggled as she saw the toast episode. We are panicking a bit as I mentioned before during on-line check-in our names are not quite right on the ... read more

Xin chao! Onwards to Hanoi!! We flew to Hanoi on the eve of independence day so the streets were absolutely heaving with people and scooters and the complete extreme from Luang Prabang! If I'm honest it was really quite overwhelming so we ducked into a rooftop restaurant and observed the chaos from behind a bowl of beef pho noodle soup! Deeelish! The next morning we set our alarm for 7 so we could pack in an entire day of sight seeing as we didn't have long in Hanoi. We started with muesli and Vietnamese drip coffee (the first decent coffee in a while) and took a cyclo (bicycle taxi) to the one pillar pagoda which is exactly what it sounds like - a pagoda build on a single column rather than 4 legs. We then walked ... read more