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(H)Oi Oi An!
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Our first night in Hoi An was a total bust on account of the less than comfortable bus journey, exacerbated by the fact our bus driver is the most horn happy Vietnamese guy to date! I managed to go 48 hours without a shower which was pretty rank so I made a bee-line to the bathroom! We slept a lot, Megs went out with her Vietnamese aunt and I hunted out an internet cafe with webcam - for anyone visiting, there are none! We got some dinner and early night, my liver was grateful!
On the 8th of March, with a good start on the day, Megan and I rented push bikes and head for the beach. Clearly not as epic as the mopeds but it was a fun way to interact with the locals. We got to the beach and it definitely has nothing on Nha Trang, it was a lot like Wales with similar weather!
On the 8th of March, with a good start on the day, Megan and I rented push bikes and head for the beach. Clearly not as epic as the mopeds but it was a fun way to interact with the locals. We got to the beach and it definitely has nothing on Nha Trang, it was a lot like Wales with similar weather!
On the road - biker style!
We bumped into a guy that Megs knew called Sam on the beach and he ended up introducing us to a couple of girls. Very bored of the weather, skanky sand and even skankier ladies trying to sell their souls we head back for a freshen up.
Cua Dai Beach
We met up with a group of people in a local bar and just spent some time chatting, there were groups from Kent, Nottingham and London. A short while later, a guy called Ryan walks in with about 9 women following him! Made me laugh. Those girls were majority British with Germans and an Australian. They were awesome! Funky feeling one of them was off telly but she was being coy about it, it transpired that we had worked together a few times in London - the conversation had been limited to her being a total bitch to me but she has definitely made amends!
Brits abroad!
Megs, Sam, Candian Lee and Nottingham Sebastien head to the beach club. It was a laugh but the crowd was a bit small - we somehow lost Lee! Motorbike home which was really cool, very good way to combat any potential hangover with the fresh air!
Next day was a bit of a write off, Megs and I went to a really nice riverside restaurant with a roof terrace. The food was amazing, the views were amazing too as the sun began to set and the lanterns around the restaurant and along the waterfront began to glow.
The view from our restaurant.
After dinner, we head back to Hop Yen hostel and met up with the girls. It was Anna's birthday (bitchy ex-manager come new best friend!). We head to potentially the most western bar in Vietnam where everyone else ate and Anna was presented with some kind dog/bear/koala/whorish puppies cake made primarily out of cream!
The cake! Happy 26th Anna!
We head back to the bar on the riverfront and played some retarded drinking games! They are wicked bunch, sucks they are heading South and yet again I'm headed North!!
Anna, Me and Fay in the local bar.
Back to the beach bar we caused havoc! It was a blast, we all ended up in the clubs pool trying to pose for retarded underwater photos on Ryan's camera...best plan ever? No! Shivering and cold, the bar closed and we head back to the Old Town. Megs, (new) Canadian Matt, some new-age Buddhist and I ended up on the riverfront in a bar that opened especially for us waiting for pizza from a very fat Vietnamese biker! Pizza came, Paul was cold - home please!
The rest of my time in Hoi An was fairly subdued, the girls left at 7pm on the 10th and I was booked on a bus at 1:30pm the following day with Rosie and Valium! Megs and I have parted ways! She's been my traveling buddy all the way from Bangkok, it was pretty sad! On the bright side, she'll be at the Full Moon Party. Loved Hoi An, Hanoi is too cold at the moment though! Everyone has said there isn't much to do here but they do have a dead dictator (result) and I will just hop on some day trips!
Time for food guys, love from Asia x
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