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Published: April 29th 2007
Where we started from ...
Umina Beach, Central Coast, Sydney, Australia Hello All
Well here we are in Saigon. It is soooo hot! We really noticed it when we got off the plane on Tusday night. We had a beaut trip over with Jetstar - managed to score seats near the exit door! Stretched the legs out and enjoyed! We thought it very Aussie when they served us meat pies with tomato sauce just before landing in Saigon - not your usual airline type meal!
We were late arriving and caught up for ages waiting to go through immigration. It seems lots of aircraft arrive around the same time in the evening so there was a huge backlog. Anyway once through grabbed a taxi and whizzed into town and there were Adele and Craig sitting outisde the bar with a beer (not Craig) waiting for us!
We headed out with Adele and Craig next day - their first time in Saigon - to show them a few sights. Did the markets, around the city centre and had a wonderful birthday lunch at the Sheriton buffet. It was nice to celebrate Rob's birthday with good friends in Saigon. Craig voted lunch as his best during their whole trip.
Had
We're leaving on a Jetstar plane...
It was better than we thought it would be. a few ales and dinner at Allez Boo before Adele and Craig left for the Mekong and Cambodia.
We're staying at the Lan-Anh (where we always stay) - pictures attached. We think its pretty good value for $15 inc breakfast. Magenta, we are up on the 6th floor, at the opposite end to where you stayed last time.
We went around looking for prices for prescription glasses - most wanted $100-$125 US for Titanium frames. But we stumbled on a wholesale optometrist who makes all the glasses for the retail outlets in town - so we bought three pairs each at $30 each! How's that for value?
We have been dining in all our favourite restaurants - Quan On Ngon, Pho 24, Night Markets and put our heads in at the Temple Club. It is free to look! That's about all we could afford. You will all be pleased to hear that Rob managed to find his frogs legs at the Night Markets. Hence we have been back twice! Bloody good too they were he says.
We found our Cobratox! A very kind man from Sinh Cafe organised a ten tube purchase for us. Col, we
Lotteria Burger Saigon
The burgers are do good they park their bikes there. have enough Cobratox to last a lifetime.
Tomorrow, Monday, we are heading up to Nha Trang. We have stumbled into a busy holiday period (reumification day - which lasts a week... as one day holidays here seem to). Buses and accommodation are chokkas but we managed to get into our accom in Nha Trang.
We're looking forward to a swimming pool for the next 10 days - and Nha Trang Seafood restaurant.
Bye for now
R & D
xxx
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Hi Sounds like you guys are having fun. I can recognise most of those photo's. Dad hope your birthday was good. Are you guys still going to the Sheridan buffet? Oh please sneak some photo's of the dessert. What's different over there now? Has much changed? Oh if I send you a rough draft of my essay tomorrow can you have a look at it. If your busy it doesnt matter. Blog page looks good, photo's came out nicely. Bye :-)