The City That Never Sleeps
My name is Mary, & this is where I come to describe the consequences of too much vodka and talk about my fucked up love life.




posted : Tuesday, March 1, 2011
title : Vietnam
Sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Vietnam using the free internet ... Well actually I'm using the computer to charge our iPods...

And everyone who comes into the lobby looks at me. And the staff are giving me funny looks…
I guess it’s cuz I’m in a foreign country and rather than just use the computer quickly to check emails before going out to adventures, I’ve been sitting here for half an hour on tumblr…
BUT I NEED TO CHARGE MY IPOD FOR THE PLANE AND MY ADAPTER DOESNT FIT IN YOUR WALL SOCKETS!

I can't really be bothered typing much just yet... so here's some info about our first day ! (I'm leaving tomorrow but whatever hahaha)
Vietnam has facebook blocked so I can't get onto it :( I'm trying unsuccessfully to find a proxy, but kinda don't want to get arrested.

Went to Ben Than markets today (pronounced Ben Ten... so everytime I say it I think of that stupid show from that stupid replacement of cheese tv that THINKS it's cool but is really actaully just lame)

Anyway it's insane in there. If you want to be inappropriately touched and have "For you Miss, so nice for you Miss" yelled at you over and over, this is the place for you!
But on the bright side I'm a kick ass haggler. Seriously that woman was ready to cry when she gave me my bag for 1/3 her asking price. mwahahahahaha.

Daniel and I used his tour guide book to find this really amazing spa place called L'Apothiquaire. It's majorly classy and very French. There fountains and pools and if your tea runs out theres already one waiting of ryou right there on the table. Anyways we made an appointment for a deep tissue massage and foot theray this afternoon. Costs 1'200'000 dong. Which is about.. $50 I think...
All I know is that I got $110 converted and still have heaps left. SO it couldn't be that much.

Have you been here? The roads are crazy insane. We were going to rent scooters and ride around. But there is no way I am going on those roads. No lines, no blinkers, no traffic lights. Bike everywhere. There .... 10xx (no exaggeration) more bikes than cars. Like motorbike and scooters, not bicycles.

Ill post more when I get home! byeee :)