Nha Trang's one of those names that you've heard, but are not sure why, then you realise it's from watching too many films about Vietnam. It's occurred to us that everyone gets here and really enjoys saying the names of some of these places: Saigon, Denang, Nah Trang. It's as if everyone realises that they sound like American Generals directing a fleet of B52s; 'Rodger that 2-9er, we've got Charlie cowering in Denang, send in a fleet of Big Mama 52's and napalm Charlies ass out, copy?' It's difficult not to complete every sentence with a Robin Williams style 'rocking from the delta to the DMZ'. It gets even more silly in Ho Chi Minh City which the old school prefer to call Saigon, but the post modern traveller calls, literally, HCMC, which sounds more a
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