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Today i woke up at 5:00am and it was broad daylight! I thought we'd missed our bus! I was too ill to get up though, kept falling back to sleep and waking up to roll around! I'm do cold! We woke up properly at 7:30 and packed our bags, ready to leave and checked out. I'm so Ill today my tonsillitis is only getting worse even though I've had a lot of rest!
The receptionist said the bus was due at 8:30 not 8:00 like the other guy said so I went to the pharmacy for more drugs! I figured seen as I'm freezing cold and Annie's boiling hot we probably shouldn't share medication as we've got a slightly different virus! I actually had to google a photo of really bad tonsillitis to show the pharmacy and they still looked confused by what it was! Maybe Asians have no tonsils?
Anyway I had to buy two packs of different antibiotic's, and take three of them four times a day, plus I had already woken up and taken my malaria pill and two ibuprofen which means a total of 15pills today! I'm gonna be high and happy and pretty damn drowsy! I'm sure your not supposed to mix them but I'm in pain and I'm not having tonsillitis on my 21st birthday!
When we got on the coach at 8:45 (asian timing) there was lots of people going to different places getting off at earlier stops! With our open tickets that we bought they gave a list of 9 destinations in Vietnam you can go too, we chose only 6! But the names of all 9 all sound quite similar and are still fresh in our minds as there all printed on the ticket! So when the bus pulled up after 3 hours, to the side to the road the driver told us where we were, me still listening to music with my earphones in! :/ annie nudged me and said this is us we need to get off...
No we didn't! We got off in Danang, when we needed to be in Hoi An so we can then get to Na Trang for my birthday! Now i thought it looked like I'd be travelling on my birthday! Not happy :(
We went straight into the nearest tour operator to see how to get to Hoi an from here, there was a bus at 5:30 in the afternoon which takes an hour and costs £2! No big deal after all then! I could've died when we first realised we were lost in the middle of nowhere though!
So we got to spend the day in another city which was actually quite good I guess and cost us only £2! However there was absolutely nothing to do! We went for lunch in a cafe which had 5 meals on the menu, the one thing I wanted, chicken fried rice, they didn't have and the waitress was very rude and abrupt about it so I say there waiting for Annie to eat.
We then walked to the riverside thinking there would be more restaurants and cafes there for me to eat but there wasn't a single one! The riverside is undergoing a lot of construction work there's new buildings popping up everywhere and in the landscape you see like 10 cranes! Not very attractive!
Then we went to the nearest museum for something to do, as we walked passed it in my quest for food! It was a sculpture museum! It was okay they were some interesting pieces, the funniest part being was Annie telling me to 'look at the size of that Lion's ball's!' It was actually an elephant! Clearly she was too distracted to notice the huge trunk protruding from its face!
We then walked for miles and miles to get me some food, I was starving and hot, the 6 pills I had already taken on an empty stomach were starting a chemical reaction within me!! Every cafe we went to only served drinks! So weird! We finally at like 3:00pm found me somewhere! A French bakery! Perfectoooo!!! I seriously would have eaten anything though.
They have all of the pastry dishes, bread and sweets all set out, so you can walk around and choose what you want and the waitress then brings it to your table... I had cured cheese baguette, as they didn't have croissants! What kind of French bakery has no croissant? I don't like Danang!
The closest thing they did have was snail bread which looked almost the same, but I didn't really fancy taking a risk with a name like that! And I had THE nicest apple juice I have ever had it was 100% whole apple juice but not mushy and gross with lumps! You would never get that in England, she must have squeezed 5 apples!
We wasted over an hour in there before returning to the tour office to get on our bus to Hoi An, and it took us just under 45 minutes!
When we arrived all the usual guys are there to hassle you into coming to there hotels, one guy insisted we go with him for a free no obligation minivan ride to his hotel with a group of other travellers, so we went just for the free ride!
When we got there the hotel was BE-U-T! It's big, spacious and clean, it has an actual swimming pool which we've not seen for months now! A nice cosy restaurant in the back garden with park benches nestled in between the trees to eat your evening meal at night and the room has a private double balcony, and a bath tub! Sold!
Annie was running around screaming like a kid at Christmas, she was overwhelmed by the 3 coat hangers and the free comb, travel toothbrush and shampoo sample we got given free! This really is the ritz! I was just so glad to see a bath tub!! It's been 4 long months since I last saw one and the thought of lying all night in a boiling hot bath with loads of bubbles was worth it! Sold! Name your price, we dumped our bags and moved in! And the room is still only $12 a night, we get quite a lot for our money!
We went and had pizza for tea though and it was a let down it was dry so not that great! Then we went for a walk around the night market before I started my relaxing bath Sesh! The receptionist said it takes 10 minutes and it takes 30.. We seriously have to stop believing these receptionists!
The town here is amazing, everything is lit up by colourful lanterns, and the hundreds and hundreds of clothes shops are amazing! If I were going to get a suit tailored, here would be the place! Too bad it would just get creased into my rucksack though, otherwise I could have spent a fortune here!
We walked along the river bridge where it's swarming with people all buying paper lanterns with small candles inside and setting them in the river where they all float down and presumably you have to make a wish or something, it looks amazing!
We then walked right to the very end to see everything there was so that we could get our spending on, on the way back ;) we decided to sit down for a drink before walking all the way back though, and got talking to a group of Americans for what felt like a lifetime! They were lovely and talkative but I can't be bothered to talk, I have tonsillitis! Bad!
They were only holiday makers so wanted to know all about where we had been in Asia, where we're we going and every crevicifical feature of my life! All I could think about was escaping and spending some serious money on clothes and then having a hot bubble bath!
Anyway two hours later we finally escaped and walked home as all of the shops were closing for night! Why does nothing go my way! Then when we were home Annie took the first shower and then realised that the dirty water wouldnt drain as it was blocked with hair! So no bubbly bath time for me either! So pissed!
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