Today has been very up and down with things I have seen and how I have felt. It started with breakfast at ABC bakery which was recommended to me by someone last night, so breakfast was a good start. I thought I would walk out of District 1 and go to the Vietnamese War Museum. Someone had said it was quite graphic but I thought how bad could it be? I arrived there and it was just as I had thought, tanks and Chinooks displayed outside of the building with random t...

My first day in Saigon was long and hot. I decided to go walking round the city and see some of the sights. I visited the Saigon version of Notre Dame which was a nice little Church sort of similar to the one in Paris except this one is made of red brick and is not quite as ornate on the outside as the one in Paris. Across the road from Notre Dame is the Central Post Office, still in use and very ornate itself. I was pleased when I went in that they had a clock w...