A new motorcycle costs anywhere from 8,000,000 dong or about $400. There has been torrential rain like you would not believe and Norm could not believe the plumbing, or lack of e.g. drain pipe falls exactly on middle footpath and pouring out so anyone below watch out.
Place here has free internet so we are in luck.
At some spring rolls, noodles with beef and nachos (Vietnamese style) and all very tasty.
Lotus got new shows at the market this morning and told me 'I am very proud of my new shoes mummy, don't take them off'.. she is very determined to tell you her mind.
Apparently there is a Hong Kong Market somewhere selling childrens clothes as the cyclo driver tells us.
We have had some fun bargaining.. all my time around Asia makes me a bit harder but grandpa just slugged with USD prices. We got glasses for grandpa for 30,000 dong and man actually swore at us in English.. also got a Lonely Planet for China at 150,000 dong or around $7.50
We now have the cyclo drivers under control.. they ripped us off 10,000 on our first trip.. we now know about 20,000 per bike to the market which is where buses leave from.. and they know us now.. so look out for us.
It is not easy lugging Lotus around in the humidity so we just give in at times.
Weather tomorrow is rain so we might do something simple like a few of the museums indoors...
Many ambulances around tonight with all the rain and no doubt accidents with motorcyles etc.
Grandpa enjoying the 80 channel TV in our room while girls are asleep.
Not really plush shopping areas here although a couple we have seen but they don't seem too big and have like Korean furniture stores. Also no 7-elevens like in Thailand, but a smaller version we found, like about 2 metres wide...lots of tall narrow buildings around here in District 1 where sailors used to bunk down as it is near the wharf although we have not ventured to the river yet with Lotus.
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