Hoi An was the destination this week, and I wasted no time in getting a few clothes custom made for me in the famous tailor shops. I chose my shop from the guidebook, sat down to flick through designs and decided on a dress and a skirt for work.
Despite searching high and low through the racks, I could not find the material I wanted so the lady took me to her warehouse on a rickety motorbike (the second in two days! This time I wasn't sure if it was ok for me to grab her waist so I ended up digging my fingernails into the edge of the seat to hold on. I started screaming as she whizzed through the hectic traffic into oncoming bikes and it was not agreeable. I thought I was going to die at certain points). Having found the material, she made the dress perfectly (despite being a terror on a motorbike) and I think I shall wear it to my cousins wedding next year, but I do wonder if I am just telling myself this to justify the purchase!
I hired a bike yesterday to cycle to Cua Dai beach. Coming from Bournemouth, I am a slight beach snob but the sea had warm, clear water with dusty sand and beautiful palm tress swaying in the breeze...just how I like it! It was brilliant.
To top the clothes and the beach, Hoi An also had an amazing bakery selling deliciously chocolatey brownies- could a town be any more perfect?!
My speech is better this week and I am determinedly hammering the fear of D. The old mental rolodex is constantly spinning to search for D words for overkill usage, unlike before when it would studiously look for any alternative. I'm heavily utilising McGuire laws 6,7 and 8:
6). Respond immediately to turbulence
7). Respond intensely to turbulence
8). Your response to turbulence must be for long enough
There is a reason these laws exist and I am fast finding out why!
Some of you may wonder why this post is entitled "the day of 17 spring rolls". On Wednesday, I inadvertently ate 17 spring rolls. I did not intend to, but it happened and although I felt quite sick, I would do the same again!
Next post: Ho Chi Minh City for Cu Chi Tunnels
