Here's a tip for traveling in Vietnam. Bring a couple dozen wallet-sized photos of yourself. You don't have to go far out of the city center to get to where there just aren't any foreigners. The Vietnamese people are very friendly and curious. Some of them will say hello and practice their English with you. Others will stare without mercy. I will be stopped on my motorbike and someone will pull right next to me--just inches away--and stare like a duck's giving birth to a pig. It's a little unsettling. So I figure, if I just carry a bunch of wallet sized photos of myself, I can just give them a photo.
Maybe you didn't know this or wouldn't suspect it, but avocado milkshakes are delicious. I drink them as much as possible, but I think maybe the avocado is going out of season. Like I said, the people here are very friendly. At the cafes I talk to them in their little English and/or my little Vietnamese. It's very fun and it's how I'm learning the language. A lot of the cafes have beautiful young women serving the refreshments, so my vocabulary consists basically of knowing how to ask if you have a boyfriend. Do you?
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I would love to go to Vietnam one day!
Are their streets still full of bicycles come early evening? Or have they succumbed to the roar of the horrible motor car?
;->...
All the best to you!
from
Gledwood
"Vol 2"...
have you encountered whitening lotion yet? do they tell you they love your skin and your hair?
i keep telling wyatt we should go to vietnam... maybe i'll be able to sell him with the avocado shakes?
Not sold. Peanut butter pasta maybe. Or tomato ice cream....
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