Although I'm not part of the trip physically, reading this letter makes me feel like I'm with every adventure my family has been to!:)
"Hi everyone! Bonjour la famille! (desole, this is in english)
It's a rainy morning and it doesn't look good for us, the tourists
here in Hue, vietnam. Hue is in the central part of the country,
between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the south.
We've been travelling by plane, train, boat, taxi - almost all sorts
of transpo the country has to offer. And aside from the hotels, we've
tried sleeping in a boat on Halong Bay and the sleeper section of the
train from Hanoi to Hue.
We've been very lucky so far with the weather and with our health.
Mama decided to take a break yesterday morning as she was not feeling
well and Andre in the afternoon who begged off from the river boat
cruise because of a headache.
Food is wonderful and varied! Last night, after our river cruise, we
decided to go to Carambole that served french - vietnamese cuisine.
So, we had a table of baguette, steak, pasta, rice, salads, fries, and
traditional Hue food wrapped in banana leaves, the namh and loc.
Yummy!
The best thing was we found a laundry place that did laundry by the
kilo not by piece that was too expensive for us at the hotel. Of
course, Dom succeeded in getting a bargain for the 16-kilo laundry
bring the price down from US$1.50/kilo to US$1.00/kilo.
Hue people are very entrepreneurial. We went to Lac Thanh Resto - a
restaurant run by a deaf and mute family. Luckily, the 3rd generation
children are normal and one of them, Loan, dealt with us in english
and french! big surprise for us as most vietnamese we met spoke
english. We found out that the resto next door as well as the clothes
shop were owned by Loan's aunts.
With 12 of us travelling, it is obvious that we occupy at least 2 big
taxis or one 16-seater van. A similar thing happened on our cruise on
Halong Bay: the boat had a capacity of 18 so we had more than half of
the rooms and 6 tourists from UK and New Zealand join us.
Also, it's not yet the tourist season so it seems like we are the only
guests in this riverside hotel. It's quite weird to go on an empty
reception area in the morning with the lights out and the receptionist
sleeping on the floor with a mosquito net around him. ;-)
ok, gotta go to breakfast now. a la prochaine,
Bing
xoxo"
"Hi everyone! Bonjour la famille! (desole, this is in english)
It's a rainy morning and it doesn't look good for us, the tourists
here in Hue, vietnam. Hue is in the central part of the country,
between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the south.
We've been travelling by plane, train, boat, taxi - almost all sorts
of transpo the country has to offer. And aside from the hotels, we've
tried sleeping in a boat on Halong Bay and the sleeper section of the
train from Hanoi to Hue.
We've been very lucky so far with the weather and with our health.
Mama decided to take a break yesterday morning as she was not feeling
well and Andre in the afternoon who begged off from the river boat
cruise because of a headache.
Food is wonderful and varied! Last night, after our river cruise, we
decided to go to Carambole that served french - vietnamese cuisine.
So, we had a table of baguette, steak, pasta, rice, salads, fries, and
traditional Hue food wrapped in banana leaves, the namh and loc.
Yummy!
The best thing was we found a laundry place that did laundry by the
kilo not by piece that was too expensive for us at the hotel. Of
course, Dom succeeded in getting a bargain for the 16-kilo laundry
bring the price down from US$1.50/kilo to US$1.00/kilo.
Hue people are very entrepreneurial. We went to Lac Thanh Resto - a
restaurant run by a deaf and mute family. Luckily, the 3rd generation
children are normal and one of them, Loan, dealt with us in english
and french! big surprise for us as most vietnamese we met spoke
english. We found out that the resto next door as well as the clothes
shop were owned by Loan's aunts.
With 12 of us travelling, it is obvious that we occupy at least 2 big
taxis or one 16-seater van. A similar thing happened on our cruise on
Halong Bay: the boat had a capacity of 18 so we had more than half of
the rooms and 6 tourists from UK and New Zealand join us.
Also, it's not yet the tourist season so it seems like we are the only
guests in this riverside hotel. It's quite weird to go on an empty
reception area in the morning with the lights out and the receptionist
sleeping on the floor with a mosquito net around him. ;-)
ok, gotta go to breakfast now. a la prochaine,
Bing
xoxo"
grt
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