This has been an odd week. We worked on Monday and then Tuesday and Wednesday were public holidays. We came back to work this morning with everyone saying "how was your week end" which was very strange and tonight feels like Monday but in fact is Thursday so it is the week end again tomorrow afternoon - just all seems wrong some how.
Because we had this split break we didn't go anywhere, which is nice in some ways because we did the things we don't usually get time for on the weekend.
So yesterday we decided to go on a bike ride with our old driver Chau, who lead us through every district we have not visited, however as we rode around we realised that we had been to many of them during our time here.
During the day we drove through Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11 and of course 7 since that is where we live. We also went to Tan Binh and Tan Phu districts.
We stopped for a lunch in District 3 where we had Com Tam, Pippie soup and fish cakes. All of which did not photograph very well but it was very delicious, and for 205,000VND (8 AUD) for three of us is was certainly value for money.
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| Fish Cakes |
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| Pippie Soup |
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| Note the concentration |
Though the day started with blue skies it deteriorated - but that is expected now that the wet season has begun today in fact. Because there was three of us I doubled for a lot of the time but I did manage to ride for a bit but when the rain set in I was happy to go back to being a passenger, driving through water that is at least a foot deep is not my idea of fun. But to locals here they just stop take their shoes off, roll their pants up and drive on through.
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| The Floods |
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| The rain |
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| Trying hard not to get his feet wet |
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| Wet weather oh so attractive |
So yesterday we decided to go on a bike ride with our old driver Chau, who lead us through every district we have not visited, however as we rode around we realised that we had been to many of them during our time here.
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