Saigon City 2009

Happy New Year to you all!! I hope you had a fantastic new years eve what ever you did!

Sorry for not writing here for a few days but the Internet out on the coast was so painfully slow and the power had a habit of dying!! After trying a couple of times to do the blog and loosing all the information i gave up!

Anyhow i know i have had emails from everyone telling me how cold it is around Europe and all i can say is i have not been able to wear jeans for 12 days! Sorry about that but it has been really good here and i have been really lucky with the weather as its been raining virtually everywhere except where i am.
The beach at Mui Nee was fantastic and i had a bungalow on the beach for 29 dollars a night which was really cool. I spent xmas with 2 German girls that i met in Hanoi, Dorothee and Hellei (i bet i have not spelt the names right!.. sorry girls!), the girls booked me in to their xmas dinner on xmas eve which was really nice 5 course meal with champers and wine. I did not know that the main celebratory day is xmas eve for them, every day is a school day! There was an old guy sat by himself so the girls invited him over, he was Danish and spoke good english, especially for a 79 year old! Funny we were the youngest people there and were the only ones to invite him over. The food was followed by a beach bar party which funnily enough ouver did not join us for! Girls i have to say that xmas eve was the best night in wax bar as the other nights did not get close!
Christmas day was spent on the beach and i had my first Kite boarding lesson which was good fun, just not as much as boxing day when i was let loose in the sea with the kite. When you get it right the kite just pulls you clean out the water and you skim along the surface, it was so much fun (i hope the girls pictures come out, they had great fun laughing at me as my face was red from the sun, i had a red top on and a red crash hat!! hmmm sexy!). I managed by the end of my 5 hours to stand up on the board and go for about 5 secs before i piled into the sea again but wow that was a fast 5 secs!
Must admit i have done nothing really for 4 days but chill out and catch the sun and surf (body boarding was good fun).
Left yesterday to come to Saigon and came with an amarican girl that i met in Sapa and we went out and partied last night we ended up dancing in the main park of Saigon to a live music concert which was really good fun! We started dancing ( i am rubbish by the way ) but we ended up with a crowd of about 40 people watching which was weird, but we did get a lot of them dancing as well!!
Got a couple of the guys from the beach coming to Saigon tonight so were all going out for dinner somewhere nice as we all go our separate ways tomorrow. I have a Mekong Delta trip for the day tomorrow and the to the Tunnels the next day. After that i then go to Cambodia for the next part of the trip, so all sort of going to plan at the moment!

Anyhow thats all the news for now, so i hope everyone had a great time last night and not suffering too much today and 2009 brings luck and happiness!

Mike