When you travel by bus (even the fancy “air conditioned” tourist ones) in Vietnam don’t expect to get to where you are going on time. Factor in a extra hour or so and you are about right.Our first taste of bus travel was late, not as air conditioned as the name might suggest and full of wonderful scenery as we travelled South from Hue to Hoi An. I’d be looking forward to Hoi An as everyone I spoke to recommended it and it also might have had something to do with there 300 odd tailors there ready to whip up what ever I fancied. Oh affordable clothes I have missed you!
The architecture of Hoi An is beautiful with a stunning French influence. We stayed on the peninsula so had a picturesque stroll across the river each morning to get to the old town each day.
Beautiful buildings in Hoi An
Strolling around the old town was one of the most confusing walks for me. Oh the town itself was easy to get around, it was all the stunning clothes in the tailors shops that I was having trouble with. How on earth was I going to choose what to have made?? It was time to relax with a pineapple juice and a coffee in a riverside cafe.
The simple pleasures in life
As we enjoyed our drinks the rain came down and it was wonderful to see that a mere heavy shower of rain doesn’t dampen peoples spirits.
You call this rain?!
Poncho? Check. Jandals? Check.
Just cruising
Another stroll around town once the rain stopped and it was time to taste the food of Hoi An. We weren’t disappointed!
The best spring rolls ever
Stir fry heaven with rice paper croutons
