I only spent a couple of days here last time. Funny how a place doesnt really appeal one moment in time, but come back a year and a half later, and u absolutely fall in love with it! I was dropped off by the mini bus about 10 kms from town where the local xe om riders tried to extort a ridiculous sum of money out of me to get me into town. Luckily my staunch determination to drop the sum siginificantly alongside my staunch conviction that "I will walk into ...

Lepers, Serenades and Pelting Lychees It has been a long time between drinks....Here I am in Hoi An where I have been for the past 4 days. After Nha Trang I did head to Quy Nhon but changed my mind about heading to Kon Tum for the reason that I had had enough of the solitary life for a little while. In Quy Nhon I was about the only foreigner in town and that wouldnt have gotten any better ini Kon Tum. So instead I headed to Hoi An which is infested with touris...

Explosive Pets (Part 1 in an occassional series) There is a word for it. When someone attempts to translate a foreign language into English - and the result is hilarious. Take the following (from which I gleaned the above title) which comes from a hotel I stayed in in Dalat as an example: Please dont bring chemical substance, burned things, explosive pets to the bedroom. Amazing what a difference a comma will make. Two further egs related to the need to beh...