Hoi An

Did I mention that Hue is a Unesco site, well so is this, the whole town. Beautiful old streets lined with custom tailors and shoe makers but since I don't wear suits anymore and choosing silks for the girls is difficult I spend all my time saying no thank you to the, very friendly, shop keepers.



Well I flew in to Singapore and the President of Singapore came to Hoi An today to see how I was getting on. The streets were closed around his motorcade of 3 cyclos and he stopped and went shopping with the other tourists. I thought the town was being well groomed and this was why.

I wasn't kidding about the motorcade...



Walked over the bridge and had lunch looking across the harbour to the old town, an oily fish, looked like mackerel, cooked in a banana leaf with ginger, garlic and chillis, just delicious. Washed down with the local draft brew, nice and cold and 10p a glass!



Spent some time in the crafts workshop watching pottery, embroidery, weaving, carvers and most fascinating of all, silk spinning. Never seen this before, took a video to bore you with. Bought a few things from a fair trade shop but otherwise the choice of shopping is just bewildering.

This is the famous, 16th century, Japanese covered bridge, early in the morning which is obvious from the lack of tourists and Presidents of neighbouring countries...



This is a small town, I can't carry any more shopping and the excursions don't look too interesting, so, I am going to catch the "sleeper" bus to Nha Trang tonight and sus that out. Beach resort town, sounds like Blackpool but a 2 hour ride from Da Lat where I fancy spending a few days.

Hopefully internet service will be better there and I can upload pictures.