Wearing a hoody again!
May 1, 2008
My luck must have been taken with them as I proceeded to loose a massive 20,000 (70p) playing cards with the young kids who live selling things along the streets. About 1am My and her friend joined Adam & I in GO2 to watch the decisive Champions League semi-final between Liverpool & Chelsea. Despite having to continuously ask the dancing transvestites to move slightly to the left the coverage was good. As was the timing of Drogba's decisive goal, 3:55am. A quick dash to the hotel for our bags and we were in our 4am taxi on route to Da Lat.
I slept the entire journey and awoke around 9am. I don't think the taxi driver had ever been there before and it took an age to get to the hotel we had picked out from the LP. Unfortunately they only had one room, which was painfully nice. Not wanting to spend all day trailing the streets to find somewhere we settled on a very basic but cheap hotel in a good spot right by the market. Si & I shared and Emma & Adam had the room above.
The rain had held of so far so we headed out to find some lunch only to get caught in a massive down pour. Luckily not far from the hotel we popped back for our waterproof gear and braved the conditions. The place we chose turned out to be great but the stomach cramps I had been having the last couple of days prevented me enjoying the food. I decided to go back and have a nap in the hope it would pass.
When I awoke Si informed me that Emma & Adam had moved to the free room in the Dreams hotel we had tried earlier as their room was so disgusting. Granted it was a little worse than ours. I was feeling better so jumped at the idea of heading to a basement bar of a swanky hotel where it was happy hour. We successfully navigated our way across Da Lat and were impressed with what we found. 'Larry's Bar' was attached to the nicest hotel and golf course in Vietnam and amazingly beers were only 65p between 5-7. A few games of pool later Emma joined us leaving the poorly Adam in bed. Our plan of going for dinner almost fell through as we walked back through the town everywhere was closing. We luckily found a spot not far from the hotel and I got a really nice chicken & noodle dish and a glass of wine for less than 2pounds! We did however have to listen to the owners life story but the food made it bearable. Being the gentlemen we are Simon & I walked Emma home before retiring for the evening.
I slept the entire journey and awoke around 9am. I don't think the taxi driver had ever been there before and it took an age to get to the hotel we had picked out from the LP. Unfortunately they only had one room, which was painfully nice. Not wanting to spend all day trailing the streets to find somewhere we settled on a very basic but cheap hotel in a good spot right by the market. Si & I shared and Emma & Adam had the room above.
The rain had held of so far so we headed out to find some lunch only to get caught in a massive down pour. Luckily not far from the hotel we popped back for our waterproof gear and braved the conditions. The place we chose turned out to be great but the stomach cramps I had been having the last couple of days prevented me enjoying the food. I decided to go back and have a nap in the hope it would pass.
When I awoke Si informed me that Emma & Adam had moved to the free room in the Dreams hotel we had tried earlier as their room was so disgusting. Granted it was a little worse than ours. I was feeling better so jumped at the idea of heading to a basement bar of a swanky hotel where it was happy hour. We successfully navigated our way across Da Lat and were impressed with what we found. 'Larry's Bar' was attached to the nicest hotel and golf course in Vietnam and amazingly beers were only 65p between 5-7. A few games of pool later Emma joined us leaving the poorly Adam in bed. Our plan of going for dinner almost fell through as we walked back through the town everywhere was closing. We luckily found a spot not far from the hotel and I got a really nice chicken & noodle dish and a glass of wine for less than 2pounds! We did however have to listen to the owners life story but the food made it bearable. Being the gentlemen we are Simon & I walked Emma home before retiring for the evening.
