Almost Home

Fred and I left Hong Kong a little later than planned due to a late arrival of the plane, but made up time on the flight over. And then we circled Ho Chi Minh City for half an hour because the airport was closed due to a severe thunderstorm! Not really my favourite time to land.

After the relatively calm three days of Hong Kong, Saigon feels like a mad house. The drive from the airport was insane....Saturday evening at 6:15, pouring rain, windshield wipers that worked only on occasion, a driver who didn't know where our hotel was located....all makes for a trip of the lifetime.

Adelle, speaking of rooms, if you want to recommend a hotel to a client, this is the place. It is new, modern, clean and located in one of those typically tall and narrow Vietanmese buildings. We have a fairly large room overlooking the market so I can't speak for the other rooms...this is the one you booked for us and I believe it is an Executive room.

Seeing we are without our fellow travellers, we don't know what to do with ourselves today. I think we will just wander around the city. We do want to go back to the Reunification Palace so will fit that into our days here.