Monday, May 10, 2010

Our last day in Hoi An (although i am definitly returning!)

we are having a nice relaxing day today to prepare ourselves for the night bus tonight. we slept in (well until 8.30am) and had some breakfast and watched some tv until it was time to check out (we waited right until 12pm taking full advantage of this late check out). we then left our bags at the cafe we brought our bus ticket from yesterday, hopefully our bags will be safe there!!!
we went and stocked up on a few last minute souvenirs and then trekked to the post office and mailed a big box of stuff home. this cost about $35 which we thought was pretty good because its 4 plastic bags full of stuff in the box!
at the moment we are sitting in a resturant having a long lunch. i ordered vegetable spring rolls for an entree and they turned out having tofu in them so ewen wasnt impressed... on the plus side i am finally mastering the use of chop sticks. pity we are already more than half way through our Vietnam adventure.
we still have three hours until our bus leaves so not sure what we'll be doing... im considering buying a bag because the one i have has now stained two of my tops with black marks, stupid weather here making me so sweaty the colour on my bag runs! it is a great bag for keeping my belongings safe just doesnt handle the heat too well... kind of like me!
anyway this is the last post from Hoi An, talk to you all when i'm in Nha Trang relaxing on the beach and snorkelling fingers crossed we see some turtles and no nemo fish!!! hehe


Ewen outside the resturant we had lunch at, this is a few minutes before it started bucketing down with rain!

me walking down a new (to us) alleyway we discovered, it lead through lots of different shops and ended at a rice field.

5 comments:

julie(mum) said...

send the bag home Piet I'll have it. I love that bag and I wont sweat on it like you do. Buy yourself a new one just as good and we will pay for it since the sweaty one was for your birthday.Hope you sleep on the bus.
Love you
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Riki said...

Pieta!! Dont send the bag back, Mum will never return it.haha. I just packed up all your dresses that were stored here. Gaz & I went and bought a mirror today, this place in Eaglehawk had 80 of them for $40 that used to be mirrors at the Hilton hotel, its pretty cool & massive! Thats the most exciting thing that happened to me today, no tofu spring rolls to report on..lol.xoxo

Mumbo said...

Have a great trip on the bus hope you get to sleep.I agree with Ewen tofu yuk mostly tastes like rubber.Good idea to send stuff home saves lugging it about. Nha Trang looks gorgeous so ENJOY love u bothxx

Anonymous said...

Aww what's wrong with poor old Nemo? Will would be devastated to hear you say that :)
Andrea
(I've forgotten my password too!)

Pietsta said...

when i went snorkeling in Vanuatu a few years ago a nemo fish chased me and keep swimming viciously into my goggles!!! luckily that didnt happen today!