Island Life

We spent a few days in a not yet back to pre Tet insanity HCMC. We saw a few of the sights my favourite of which was the Reunification Palace - a time capsule of 1960's architecture and interior design. Seriously one of my favourite sights of the trip! I also had hair cut number 2 which cost me $2 which was going OK until the styling where I ended up with a head full of gel - yes, you read that right, blue, stinky, flashbacks to the 80's gel. Oh the humanity! But then it was time to get tropical and head to Phu Quoc. I found it to be an odd place. Yes bits of it are picture postcard perfect with amazing vistas of sand, sea and sky (and beautiful sunsets). On the other hand to get to any restaurants its either a hard slog up the beach or up the main road which is currently being regraded leaving it a dusty, rocky pain in the arse. I did fit in a large amount of beach and reading time. I was most please to read the new Jasper Fforde which my friend had bought over for me bless his cotton socks. We also did a boat tour with snorkling around the southern islands which was very nice. It was all going well there was an accident in the engine room and the captain was extremely badly burnt. Luckily the accident happen within sight of the harbour and he was evacuated quickly. I hope he survived but we'll never know. Sorry to end the blog on a downer but reality can sometimes hit in a shocking way - being a traveller doesn't make you immune to it.