Thursday 17th September 2015
The trouble with
short holidays in exotic locations is…if you miss a day writing up your notes,
it is gone!
We only had one
day in Danang; possibly enough… When we arrived at lunchtime we walked around
happily enough, finding nothing but long long streets selling clothes and shoes
and NO food at all! Were we really in SE
Asia, where people eat all the time???
Eventually, around a corner in a street which
also had no food at all, we found a tiny vegetarian restaurant, with a tiny
kindly woman called Ngan.
She fed us noodle
soup and a plate of something very strange which she assured us was a
vegetable. Or a leaf…it actually tasted
like tuna but…who knows??
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| So what is it?? Top right?? |
We never have
dessert but she brought us tiny little tubs of something which tasted exactly
like lemon panacotta, which she had made with her own fair hands. Bliss!
Our hotel, Orient
Phuong Dong, was fine. Mid-range, all
very pleasant.
Yesterday we
caught a bus out to the Marble Mountain, not far from the beach. Fabulous!
We went up to the top and explored the grottoes
pagodas
misty pathways.
Along the
street there was marble statuary galore.
In the evening we
had dinner along the river, overlooking the fabulous Dragon Bridge, which
changed colour every few minutes. I do
love a bit of neon lighting…
We did NOT insert
our beloved visacards into this slot on this particular ATM…
This morning we
got up early, had breakfast, and then…I went back to bed…I have a bit of a
coughy coldy thing which is making me less than sparkling company…
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| Looking crook at dinner... |
Eventually I HAD
to get up and face the world.
And a very nice
world it is.
We walked along
very interesting streets, full of recycled this & that. Mufflers, gears, chains, whatever, all
dissembled, cleaned up, neatly presented.
MUCH more
interesting than our fruitless foodless (and long…) walk the day before.
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| So many very b-o-r-i-n-g shops…and no food!! |
We were heading
for the railway station, and stopped for coffee in a very nice place with
plate-glass windows from which I could observe the traffic. Traffic here is fascinating!
Actually we were
heading for the railway station in the wrong direction (*cough* who was
navigating, Captain Pete??) but I didn’t mind because it was all so
interesting, seeing the street life.
In the end we had
to clamber into a taxi…we had put too much distance between ourselves and our
goal.
At 12.40 we were
on our train, heading for Hue.
This is supposed
to be one of the most beautiful railway trips in THE WORLD!
So we were very
amused to see our travelling companions, not many minutes into the journey…
We didn’t sleep;
it was lovely!
Pete had to travel
backwards; not me!
So now we are in
Hue. I have had a massage and a body
scrub so I am very much IMPROVED! Ready
for a big adventure tomorrow, exploring the DMZ…
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