HUE-28/06/06 Am sat at the WHY NOT? bar- with cold Larue in hand-happy & relaxed.Jottin notes in my journal. On my way to Tropical garden restaruant - it is incredibly humid and as my leggies stick to gether in a low waddle I am in a quandry what to eat. Feel like an iced soup!! Well one day later - still hotter than a wok but getting my head around it. Slowly slowly monkey monkey-- Had a superb manicure and pediure at Saigon Morin hotel - just to retrea...

Hue- On my way here-passed beautiful landscapes and village scenes.The houses here are skinny minny- due to high cost of land frontage- so people buy skinny plots and then proceed to build lonways into the back garden.Doors are left wide open back & front-v Feng Shui- and you get ot gander inside.all same same but different-spartan,table, couple of chairs, side cabinet,some dust collectors in the form of gaudy buddhas/vases/tutt,a TV which remains on 24/7-and ...

Hue-27/06/06 There is no question -one of the truely greatest things in coming to Vietnam has been the cuisine-around 500 National dishes.Eating is such an integral part of the culture- Indeed a Vietnamese proverb says- that people should learn to eat before they learn to speak. God only knows what the Pommy proverb would be- drink beer and get fat belly before learn to crawl-- If cooking were a painting, Vietnam would have one of the worlds most ...