right so I thought I'd write about my (predictably) crap bus journey out of saigon. I knew it would be crap, Ive quite badly wanted to just fly to the various places up the coast of Vietnam but I thought that wasnt perhaps getting into the spirit of things. ew it was gross. thankfully there were a couple of english guys so I felt a weeny bit safer but I was still squashed up on one side by a big fat snoring, arms thrown over the head, fairly bad BO Vietnamese person and on the other side a very shuifty loking - I want to rob all your possessions type Vietnamese guy (he didnt but only because about an hour early Id had enough and so went up to sit by the driver, who smoked the whole time, so that was nice...
anyway so I laughed my ass off with these english guys and hopefully managed to dissuade them from going to china (he reckons theyre not giving him a visa because his hairs too long and hes bearded) but their journey was 12 hours rather than 4 (on the brochure, 5 and a half in reality) so after a while they went to sleep and left me to try to protect myself from mr shifty's wandering eyes. it couldve been worse, I know that. But it was still gross, Mr shifty scratched what couldve been bites or fleas or worse most of the night and mr snorey mid stretch would quite often elbow me in the head. I also liked the fact that I was the only person to get off at Mui Ne so was in the street in the pitch black at 2 in the morning. That was good.
Luckily Id booked myself into some quite nice lodgings so could watch an hours bbc news report on a city theyre building in the middle of the saudi desert, personally I cant think of a better way to unwind.

Anyway so Ive felt s***ty all day today I swear I caught bus lergy. Luckily all Ive had to do today is sit on a very nice beach lounger and watch the kite surfers. The tan is coming along nicely although Im probably aging my skin by about 25 years so Ill come back 50...