Suit Up!

We arrived in the city of tailors around lunch time and checked into a $12 a night hotel that had a pool, wifi, aircon, the whole shabang. Hoi An is small enough that you can pretty much walk everywhere, but we decided to get bikes (was $1.50 for 24 hours - well worth it). After check in, we wandered into town to have a look round. Tailor shops are everywhere - if you want anything tailor-made, this is the place to come to. Al booked in a leather jacket for $170 USD, turned out pretty awesome. I locked in a cashmere wool/cotton blend suit for around $250 USD (that included a second pair of pants and postage to UK). Gonna look pretty slick when i touch down - everyone's gonna wanna employ me! haha, hopefully...

Hoi An is a pretty sweet lil place, chilled, but equally busy. We explored the city for the rest of the first aftanoon and did some well overdue laundry. The weather turned crap late afternoon, so we retired for an early one.

Since we only had one day really in Hoi An, we got up early. 6:30am early. We mish'd into town on our bikes to grab some brekky, before we rode the 5km (seemed a little shorter than that) to Cua Dai Beach. Mint beach, but was pretty deserted at 8:30am. No time to waste tho, we only had one day. After a quick dip and perch, we cycled back to town. Alex had a jacket fitting at 10, and I had the first of my suit fittings at 11. Day 2 in Hoi an was a scorcher. They had all fan blowing when I was trying on my suit - luckily (for me, not for them) they provided a shirt for me to wear while i tried on the suit. The tailor came in to make some adjustments, and i'd have to come back at 3:30 for my final fitting. We grabbed lunch at the Banana Leaf Cafe - set menu lunches. Epic feed, but we splashed out after eating fairly cheap so far. We cycled the peninsular in hoi an, be fore we had our final fittings - Alex for his jacket and me with the suit. 

By the time we were done it was time to jump on the night bus to Nha Trang, but not before we stopped in for a "New Zealand Ice Cream" - bit dubious whether it was actually NZ ice cream, but it was pretty good. The sleeper bus was worse than the last one. this one had only fan, no aircon. Everyone down the back were dripping and it was pretty sticky for the whole trip. Sleeping was an issue. we stopped at about 11pm for a feed, mostly just a respite from the bus tho. everyone cringed when we got back on, we still had another 6 hours in the stench pit to go. We met these two canadian chicks, that we'd seen on Monkey Island in Halong Bay. They were cool. Pretty much doing the same trip as us from here, so we may see them quite a bit more. Also met this dude from Auckland. He was aiight - bit of a muppet, but tolerable. 

Anyways, we've just arrived in Nha Trang, Its just got 7:30am - the bus dropped us off at 6am. We checked in to a bit more plush accom - $20 USD a night - clean, aircon, pool, wifi, beach view. Mint - will update ya on Nha Trang soon.