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Published: November 25th 2009
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Walking the streets of Nha Trang
They can fight like cats and dogs but they do love each other. We were all set to slog out the 5 hour local bus to Hoi An but chickened out at the last minute. We took the 'easier' option of a 12 hour trip on a sleeper-bus. The promise of children sleeping for 10 hours or so and missing the bulk of a bus journey was too tempting to pass up.
Had to hang around in Nha Trang for the 7 pm departure. It was really hot so we headed down to the beach where it was really hot. Our former hotel took pity on us and allowed us to bum around their pool for the rest of the day. The theory being that 4-5 hours of non-stop pool action would wipe them out for the bus trip.
I'm ashamed to confess that we returned to the same restaurant that we had dinner in the night before. Not because the food was brilliant - it was fine and Reuben liked their standard issue pizza margherita - but because we knew they had a tv that the kids could watch, killing a bit more time till bus liftoff.
The kids were very excited about the prospect of the sleeper bus. The
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Depressing to know the formula giants are getting their claws into the Vietnamese. beds were OK but it was a little like lying in a coffin, which was fitting given the maniacal driving. The obligatory loud American was threatening to put us to sleep with, you guessed it, his wartime experiences in Vietnam. The guy really had a sense of the deeply inappropriate. Fortunately age and sleep overtook him and he shutup before too long.
Kids slept till 6 am and then it was only an hour or so to Hoi An, so the whole trip was much better than I was aniticipating.
Our hotel in Hoi An is brilliant. The Tranh Van, if anyone is taking notes, has a pool in a beautiful courtyard in the centre of the hotel. Our room opens directly onto the pool, 2 steps and you're in the water. I don't know whether the kids were more excited by the pool or the fact that the room has a bath.
Planning to stay for 3 nights here in Hoi An as it is beautiful town, mercifully and mysteriously untouched by the destruction of the 'American War'.
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Beth, Ben, Albert, Owen
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Hello from Canada
Sounds like a fabulous trip. Love reading the blog and seeing the pictures. Even with 3 kids, and even from the other side of the world, your pace of sightseeing exhausts me... Keep taking those important detours into tv, pools, and other kid essentials.