The only excitement of the morning was when Paul was swimming in the sea and was chatted up by a couple of Russian ladies! It seems they took a bit of a fancy to him and one of them actually plucked him up when a big wave took him off his feet. I think she thought she was savbing him from drowning and showed him off to her Russuian friends like a trophy!
We took the shuttle bus into the city of Danang in the afternoon and went into the market.
It was certainly an experience! The smell was dreadful, but probably only to us as we aren't used to dried prawns and such like in great big containers for people to get bags of for eating!
We needed to buy some more painkillers for Louise, but trying to explain to a lady on a toiletries stall was a nightmare. I daren't tell you some of the things she was trying to sell us! In the end, another old lady dragged us outside to a street vendor, who was selling medicines. We recognised the name Panadol and think we got painkillers!
Louise had found a new restaurant which had opened recently and was owned by an Irish guy, so we just needed to kill and hour or two before dinner. We were wandering along the sea front when we came across one particular section, which was a hive of activity. There were queues of Vietnamese waiting to get in and through the entrance you could see rows and rows of shower cubicles, before you actually reached the beach. There were people in them washing their hair and having showers.
We assumed it was where the local people could meet, have a shower, chill on the beach and relax.
We went a little further to a really nice hotel, where there was a bar on the beach and some live entertainment. Just the place for a cocktail or two and a bit of people watching.
We could see the public beach a bit further down from the private beach we were on and the contrast between the two was tremendous.
In the hotel restaurant you could choose your own lobster or crab for tea - but we were going to the Irish place for a lovely steak!
Not sure how much time I will get to blog tomorrow, as we will be on the move to Saigon!
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