After an exciting start with with delays both for trains and planes (did some hard core running in Doha) we finally landed in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday.
Flying with kids aged 6, 9 and 11 is a walk in the park compared with the flights we’ve had the last 11 years. Binge watching American romcom AND finishing a book, not needing to entertain anyone but myself - what a luxury. (“Mum, will it be the same plane when we go back? With screens?”)
But even if the girls behaved fantastically the parents didn’t manage to catch any sleep, so when arriving yesterday afternoon we were slightly groggy to say the least. Here we have yet another great home exchange, and the big pool has turned out as perfect remedy to wake up almost dead.
The traffic here is just as chaotic as everyone says - scooters EVERYWHERE - which you need to dodge like bullets being a pedestrian. Even when having a green light. Same thing in eMart, our local big supermarket - have never been anywhere so crowded, and there are no traffic rules whatsoever when dodging shopping carts. A nice thing with eMart are all tasting samples - easily counted to 15 yesterday, even if I didn’t understand what half of them were.
Today we have checked out some landmarks, went to a big market where we had planned to lunch but Alma lost appetite when a rat run past her, got a haircut (K), got manicure (J&A), despaired about the amount of trash and learned some basic Vietnamese. People are really friendly and we are quite sure we’ll have a great couple of weeks here!
Guess who managed to swim some 10 m with snorkel and cyclops today?
Not a trip without the holy book, LP.
Old post office, possibly built by Gustave Eiffel, with Ho Chi Minh himself in the back.
After smashing into a corner, K got half a ping pong ball on her forehead. A napkin full of ice helped though.
Floating rubbish dump
4 € haircut
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