STILL ALIVE AND KICKING

This is just a quick addition to the blog because so many of you have been messaging me concerned that I have not added to the blog. Well the reason is that the computers here in Vietnam have not been letting me add pages. This one has, but it will not let me upload pictures. So I will update it when I have a better computer. Since Laos I have travelled to Hanoi in Vietnam, it was the coldest it has been for over 40 yeras and I froze to death and got soaked through a couple of times on various trips. But there were good times on the trip to the Perfume Pagoda and Halong bay. I will put the info on those on another blog.
Then I travelled by overnight train to Hui and that was one of the worste journeys of my life (nothing like the wonderful train journey to Chang Mai when you got a private bunk) This time a whole family literally camped out on the bottom bunks!!! There was not space and certainly no privacy they even got round to stealing from my bag!!!!
But It is all part of the experience of the trip. I can tell myself that now, but it has really got to me at times and this country is so hard to travel in. They just lie to you about what it costs, or where you are going, or what time you will leave or get to places.You feel you are being conned all the time and they are so rude to tourists. I think they are just getting greedy and forgetting to be nice. Then I did a twelve hour bus trip yesterday to Nha Trang and that was hiddious. It was an old ricketty bus that stopped to tow another bus enroute!! But we got here late last night. It was there New Years Eve, so lots of fireworks and celebrations. I on the otherhand was not celebrating when I discovered that my room was full of fleas and my bed was just crawling. They moved my room and the other one was also infested. But I was so tired I went to bed. Today I got up early. They pipe music through public speakers very early in the morning to wake everyone up!!! all over Vietnam!!. I went for a long walk along the beach and it is beautiful. The sea was a silvery grey with the mountains in the background. And I chilled a bit. I have found a nice swimming pool along the beach . So I am now going to grab my things and have a lazy day there.
I will then be heading for Ho Chi Minh city in a couple of days.Then I will leave this country and head for Bangkok ready to fly out to Sydney on February the 20th(Horray!!!!).
I can honestly say I will never be coming back to this country again.But I would revisit all the other places I have been so far.