Well so far Ho Chi Minh City is nothing like what I had expected. All the guidebooks and websites make you think it’s a pickpocket’s paradise where you are having everything snatched off your face by scooter-riding thieves and you’re being ripped off left right and centre. The traffic is pretty heavy and its quite noisy, but it’s nowhere near the levels of Bangkok. Crossing the road is fun: just walk. Don’t look. The scooters will move for you, and if you move for them, then you just mess with the whole crazy system.
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Archive for November, 2005
Ho Chi Minh is Mint
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005Please, No More Food
Sunday, November 27th, 2005We’ve been in Singapore for two nights now, and we’re absolutely stuffed. Our family friends, Diana and Phillip have been incredibly generous in ensuring we sample as much of the local cuisine as possible. Curries, noodles, roti, satay, durians, mangos, snake fruit, dried ginger… oh my. But the food here has been incredible. Anyway, I’m busy uploading photos, check some out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joffley/sets/1461945/. More to come!
Australia Finally Through
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005We finally made it. Our four-year old nemesises Uruguay lay shocked after their ‘divine’ right to qualify for the 2006 World Cup was snatched from them by an impressive show from the Socceroos. After years of agony, we finally made it. And how sweet it is.