The sight of PQ as we arrived on the ferry made us both heave a sigh of relief. Beautiful beaches and clear blue waters, yes! We installed ourselves in some bungalows (not the nicest, one bed turned out to have been peed on and they didn't change the sheets...mmm) and started to Relax. Our day was made when we realised that in fact we'd got to PQ a day earlier than we thought and so we had 4 days there!
Not much to say about the next few days really, we moved bungalows and found some much nicer ones, lay on sunbeds, read many books and sat in the sea. I had my leg hair removed in an original way (some ladies attacked me with a reel of cotton, a little painful but probably v environmentally friendly!) and got a massage. It's a tough life! We found an amazing place to eat right on the beach, watched a thunderstorm and one night splashed out, put on our fancy frocks and headed to La Veranda, a vvv posh resort and had a truly memorable meal. We kept giggling as we felt so out of place, I think the waiters thought we were crazy!
Sadly you can't spend forever in paradise so we had to leave PQ and head to Ho Chi Minh, which was frankly terrifying. There were motos and bicycles everywhere and a deafening cacophany of horns blaring as each person tried not to run over someone else. We kept our eyes closed and stuck to taxis!
A day of culture and horror at the Reunification palace and the war remnants museum (probably the most distressing museum I've ever seen) and then suddenly it was time for me to go back to Bangkok. Aargh where has the last 3 months gone?
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