19 Jan 2007 - A decade's a long time

Well its been 10 years since Mark and I married and we're spending our anniversary whilst in Vietnam on our long awaited trip. Yesterday we arrived in Ho Chi Minh city (previously known as Saigon) about 9pm after delays getting started and after what seemed to be the most boring trip in our flying history, we finally made it.

Luckily our hotel (5- star!) had a free pick up / drop off service from the airport as it's really crazy around here. The trip was fascinating mainly to see how the Vietnamese motorbike (and the occasional bike riders) didn't get into accidents every 5 secs. They don't really seem to follow any road rules and their are so many people running into and out of the roads it's like a ballet with car horns.

I actually likened it to a school of miniscule fish swimming around a shark as the the motorbikes jumping in and out of tbhe paths of the large trucks, cars and buses.

It was an early rise this morning 6am, to catch a free shuttle back to the airport and now we're flying up to Hanoi in the north and we'll be joining our tour from tomorrow evening.