We knew where we were heading so got a cab there. But it was fully booked. Of course it was. So we wandered around in the rain and managed to book in to a nice looking hotel with a pool and a tv! All for $10 a night but I managed to barter her down to $8, haha. Once you get in to the frame of mind of bartering you cannie stop. So. It was late and raining, so we just went to a place down our road for some dinner. That's 'tea' for any of you northerners who might be reading and confused. We tried out the local delight called 'white rose' which were tiny parcels of something or other. Really tasty. We ended up spending a couple more days than planned in HoiAn. That's the beauty of it. We liked it there as it was such a nice town. There was that reason and the fact that it rained non stop, quite literally. There were floods for a few days so we didn't fancy trying to drive through floods in a bus. There was that reason and the fact that we couldn't stop buying dresses. HoiAn is the place to have clothes made. So cheap. I ended up with 4 dresses in the end, and Jan escaped with about the same.
HoiAn is where we met Mia. On the first night. She was travelling on her own and was having dinner with another girl in the sam place we were eating in on the 2nd night. We enede up having drinks with them both and then saw her again the next day. Following us I would imagine. So it rained. And rained. And rained. We go fed up one day that we couldn't do much so we hired a dvd player and watched a bunch of films. Iron Man is wicked!!! Oh and I went for a swim in our tiny pool. I tried with the laps but once you'd done wo strokes it was time to turn round again.
And another night Mia decided to sit in the flood. Mia behave yourself. And stop copying the dresses I get made.
Did I mention it rained?
So after all the dress making, scrabble playing (is 'goon' a word?) eating at Tam Tam and the Cargo, shopping for Christmas pressies (i've never been so organised it was only October!), and wading through the floods with swimming cockroaches, we decided to leave. Oh and I did make the effort to go find the church but it was shut. But I still went! And I saw the war memorial which was, well, it was flooded. As were many of the poor shops around town. Oh yeh and the boats. They got boats out to cart people around. Charging such high rates. We didn't have a go. That's what crocs are for isn't it??
Bye bye Mia.
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