- Sleeping in the top bunks makes you hot
- Sleeping in the bottom bunks brings you close to the rats.. Nice!!!!!!
So Dudu jumped on top... Ha! The air conditioning worked and their were no rats.. At least the four legged variety.. a few knocks on the compartment, but we had both been warned by our tour leader not to open the door for anyone..Well we included him in that and was almost late the next morning.. glad we weren't.. talk about a full on day he had planned.. As we got in at 6.30 he had arranged with the hotel to give us access to a day room, so showers, all round.. Then it was off for a quick breakfast before being picked up for a boat cruise... The boat cruise however took us out to a fishing village where we walked among the locals..Being chased by the children, chorus's of "hello" and then hidden faces behind inscrutable parents arms...Cute..
Then we popped over the other side, and was admiring the bamboo baskets, and before we knew it, we were in them being taken to our boat that had come around the island to pick us up... Off to a beach for a spot of snorkelling among the coral reef... So many fish that I didn't recognise and never having seen coral before, it was magical.. I didn't realise it was time to go until I looked up and everyone was changed, sitting at the end of the boat giving me the evils.. I gave them a friendly two fingered wave right back at them...
Then we went to eat.. So there was a sister boat with the firm we were with so we pulled up beside them in the middle of the south china sea, calm waters...Our skipper jumped ship and bought back a feast... Fish, prawns, beef, chicken, noodles, rice, vegetables, fruit, baguettes.. and on the other larger boat, a concert by the Nha Tranh Boys... Wish the photos turned out because the drummer was using two pots (Yamaha stickers on the side) and they proceeded to belt out rock and roll on the sea... Then one of them jumped over board in a life ring and said "happy hour" which meant if you jumped over too, then the cocktails were free, but as he pointed out... the tide was running so hold onto the side, or you'd be getting a free trip to Thailand or Malaysia for free, no visa required... There was also impromptu singing once he learned where everyone was from, but we won't belabour that point..Needless to say we sound freakn awesome the more we drink.Can't speak for anyone else, actually was getting pretty to not being able to speak...
We then went to a private beach for a free afternoon of swimming... It's private because you have to pay to land and use the beach, but it is fully equipped with thatched huts beach chairs, facilities, ice cream vendors, bathing suit vendors (for those who didn't bring any - and those who should know better- You know the kind... Um darling, speedo thongs are so NOT this year!!) Got burned badly but we have a theory, that 3rd degree burns, means that it's the 3rd layer of sunburn so 1 down 2 to go...... All of this in temperatures hitting the 30's... It couldn't have been better....
Back to the hotel to check into the room.... Dudu and I got our key first so off we went, happy and replete... Should have known.......
Dudu heads to the bathroom and comes flying back out... You gotta have a look at this!! On our bathroom wall is a photo of a naked reclining lady... If you get into the shower, the apartments from across the road see straight into the stall..so I figured that the thoughtful hotel owners decided to give the apartment dwellers something worthwhile to watch and leave their guests alone.. How nice... We tried to see everyone elses bathrooms but only our's was thus decorated... No room change allowed, so grin and bare it (pardon the really really bad pun).
Then Sonny took our group out for dinner at a local BBQ joint.. They bring open braziers of coal directly to the linen laden tables... duh!! Sonny and I were cooking, he was fine.. My embers kept dying, and everytime I blew on them to raise the temperature, Adam would moan..something about smoking not allowed at the table, and other such mutterings like...charcoal is that good for your teeth?? Moan moan moan,, we've renamed him Adumb... Sweet guy really... First trip overseas...Is 20 just qualified as an electrician, and really sweet.. Anyway he and his sister Tara went out to a club... She got home, but he was being hassled about being a "lady boy" so he started kissing this local girl, got horribly drunk and passed out on a pool table in a bar.. Which one he isn't sure of, and what the girls name was he can't remember, and on second thoughts given the beauty of some of the "lady boys" he wasn't sure it was a female.. see Adumb!!
Got a relatively early night as we had a motorcycle tour organised for the next day and had lots of sun today.. Will update progressively... Were in Hoi An at the moment, and have been told there's another typhoon hovering over somewhere, but we are fine....
Tutu and Dudu xoxoxox
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