Hoi An

Hey guys,
Thats right, I am currently in Hoi An. for the few of my readers who are a little geographically challenged, that is in the middle of Vietnam. It is also the place to go for tailor made stuff. Dresses, shoes, coats, shirts, pants the list seems endless! It is a beautiful little place almost surrounded by water. There is a river and the ocean which I will admit that I have yet to visit yet, but I do have some spiffy boardies for when I do finally get a chance to get there!

I say "get a chance" because we have been so hell raisingly busy. This is our one week holiday and it is really nice to know that i dont have to teach at all this week, i think it was driving me a little insane! But we flew down from Ha Noi on friday - me with a massive hangover becuase it was Laura - mentioned her before - birthday and i had my first Pint, but anyway i recovered and we romed the streets and visited some tailors.

There was only a small group of us and it was really nice and chilled and relaxed and we just sat down and had some dinner in prep for Saturday. More people were flying in and they came knocking on our door at an un-godly hour of the morning. We continued all day to scour the tailors for cheap prices and go to fitting and then collapse for a meal of some sort.

Sunday after breakfast we went for a walking tour of Hoi An. It is a beautiful little place where some of the streets are blocked off to cars, so there are lots of little streets were you can wander and get lost in and its just beautiful. There are very few street stall to get food which is a little annoying and so we end up in restaurants quite alot, but its worth it. We visited 5 locations including a museum and the red Japanese Bridge. It just expanded my knowledge of Hoi An so much!

Monday was a little different from the very begining. The night before we planned a trip to My Son (pronounce me son). It is about 10km south of Hoi An, and we planned on taking Motor Bikes. 3 people took a Xe - om and the rest of us hired 4 bikes form the hotel and drove our selves the whole way. It was INCREDIBLE! i wont lie, i managed to drive the bike back from my Son, and being an auto it was really really easy. The traffic had died down ant it was really easy and sooooo much fun.

But why did we go to My Son??? Well there are these ancient relics that have been discovered and its quite a nice day trip out to see them and do a bit of a walk to get to them and find them and it is just really pleasent. As a result, My son is just awesome, but only worth a day....

Today was another good day actually. we booked our self in for a cooking class. It was really cool and included a guided visit to a market to buy the food, a boat trip and a chance to actually cook. It was like being back in Mrs Mac's cooking classes, but no where near as good! We got to eat our creations - as usual - and we sat in a restaurant by the river and some enjoyed the wine. It was really nice. The rest of the day - once again - was spent at the tailors.

For all the time i have spent there, i haven't gotten too many things. My first purchase was a pair of jeans - perfect - and dupilcates of my favourite tee-shirt. Also as a previously mentioned the board shorts and now i have a fab summer dress and a LBD on the way with some shoes. i'm pretty excited actually and pretty happy that i havnt gone off tat. Some people are spending SOOO much.

Anyway, i had to write it donw now - as a so far - becuase i am already struggling with recounting these past few days - let alone a whole week!

Hope all is well

Eat out