RyanDS wrote:Had it a few times in Myanmar, where the drivers (correctly) assume that an extra 2,000 kyat is peanuts to me, even if they're charging an absolutely ludicrous price in a local context. I managed to avoid most of it using Grab, but it was pretty funny when it happened. |
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fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoRyanDS wrote:
Sorry, hope I didn't ruin your holiday
fontgeeksogood wrote:
Oh fuck of you sanctimonious cunt. Do you ever come into this thread to do anything apart from shit on it?
It's paradise out there, people are friendly, and you can rip off taxi drivers -
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Registered 12 years agoMeh. Sorry to snap. You're being a dick but that's no need for me to be rude. Was stressed with work.
Anyway, back to my blogging which I know you hate. War
remnants museum this morning. Horrific.
I found it worse than Hiroshima or the Cambodian killing fields. Those were history. The war museum I started crying at exhibits, so many pictures of dead and deformed children. Then walked into the children's art room... fucking children still living with scars of the war. A girl in a wheelchair all palsied running the till, a blind kid with blank skin where his eyes should be playing piano, another kid with stumps for arms and legs walking around painting and so on. Kids, teenagers, still living with the results of the american war of aggression, maimed by either leftover cluster bombs or the effects of the tonnes of agent orange that have contaminated the country. Just wanted to run away. -
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Registered 3 years agoI don't hate it, I actually like reading it but I'm a dickhead as well. An enigma -
fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoAlthough that doesn't sound enjoyable maybe you ARE travelling after all -
RyanDS 13,697 posts
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Registered 12 years agofontgeeksogood wrote:
Not enjoyable at all. But I feel it is important. I do think when you see a place you should see the good and the bad, I want to learn the country not just walk around having fun. I am not going to do the full on charity work and spend a month building an orphanage, I am too much of a selfish cunt for that. But I think you do need to see the poverty, see how the local people live and at least try to empathise and take some time to reflect on how lucky we are to love in such a prosperous, safe bubble.
Although that doesn't sound enjoyable maybe you ARE travelling after all
And then I go for my massage and spend the night doing a walking food tour or getting drunk playing pool.
On that point, booked a motorbike food tour of saigon for tonight, splashed out 20 of my British pounds to spend 4 hours stopping at 7 restaurants/food stalls to do my Ecosse street food tribute.
On a random note, I always thought it was called Ho Chi Minh city, as it is on the maps. But I have been corrected very abruptly that that is the foreign and government name. It is Saigon and everyone in Vietnam calls it that. Ironic that only the foreigners call it by the name of the national hero. Although the longer I am here the more I think he is only a hero in the north. -
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Registered 3 years agoI once saw where the staff lived in a hotel in Cancun, agree its important to see the reality of a country -
Armoured_Bear 29,488 posts
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Registered 9 years agoRyanDS wrote:
That’s interesting about Saigon, I thought the same as you.
fontgeeksogood wrote:
Not enjoyable at all. But I feel it is important. I do think when you see a place you should see the good and the bad, I want to learn the country not just walk around having fun. I am not going to do the full on charity work and spend a month building an orphanage, I am too much of a selfish cunt for that. But I think you do need to see the poverty, see how the local people live and at least try to empathise and take some time to reflect on how lucky we are to love in such a prosperous, safe bubble.
Although that doesn't sound enjoyable maybe you ARE travelling after all
And then I go for my massage and spend the night doing a walking food tour or getting drunk playing pool.
On that point, booked a motorbike food tour of saigon for tonight, splashed out 20 of my British pounds to spend 4 hours stopping at 7 restaurants/food stalls to do my Ecosse street food tribute.
On a random note, I always thought it was called Ho Chi Minh city, as it is on the maps. But I have been corrected very abruptly that that is the foreign and government name. It is Saigon and everyone in Vietnam calls it that. Ironic that only the foreigners call it by the name of the national hero. Although the longer I am here the more I think he is only a hero in the north.
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elstoof 26,655 posts
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Hooking up with the hotel staff is the best right
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challenge_hanukkah 13,606 posts
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Registered 7 years agoelstoof wrote:
fontgeeksogood wrote:
Hooking up with the hotel staff is the best for contracting an STI right
I once saw where the staff lived in a hotel in Cancun, agree its important to see the reality of a country -
fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoYou're both right -
fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoAre you seasoned Travellers? Hopefully Fuzzy doesn't see this thread -
RyanDS 13,697 posts
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Rash cleared up yet?
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fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI don't know, I haven't kept their details -
elstoof 26,655 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSo we boiled it right down to
Holiday - hooking up with hotel staff
Travelling - paying for prostitutes
Am I missing anything, no, ok cool -
RyanDS 13,697 posts
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Registered 12 years agoelstoof wrote:
What if you stay in a 5 star resort and never leave the complex but get prostitutes shipped in?
So we boiled it right down to
Holiday - hooking up with hotel staff
Travelling - paying for prostitutes
Am I missing anything, no, ok cool -
elstoof 26,655 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWhy would you do that -
fontgeeksogood 12,059 posts
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Registered 3 years agoLast time I went to Cancun the only other Canuck staying at the resort did exactly that - he'd booked the holiday for him and his partner who dumped him a week before they went, so he went to Coco Bongo and took two ladies of the night (who were also ladies of the day a few hours later).
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RyanDS 13,697 posts
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Registered 12 years agoelstoof wrote:
Ugly staff?
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elstoof 26,655 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHave you ever seen a beautiful prostitute? -
RyanDS 13,697 posts
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Registered 12 years agoFood tour of Saigon was epic. I dont count myself a foodie, but I do like trying the local food. Oh my God, I would honestly move here for the street food alone. We did 8 stalls or restaurants and every single one was up there with a top restaurant in london. In london I get pho once a week and the one here for £1.20 blew my mind. Ecosse would wet himself (I assume he has already been here though)
Then yesterday got to Hai Phong, 3rd biggest city but feels like a small town. Did halong bay today, my friend who works here organised it, just the two of us, 6 hours on a boat for 30 people and we paid $18. Local knowledge is a killer!
Anyone doing Vietnam, I recomend. Apart from the teachers I have to seen foreigner here. After the hustle and bustle of Saigon it is a different world. -
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Registered 3 years agoIt's the gutter oil which makes the difference -
JamboWayOh 22,548 posts
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Registered 8 years agoLiving in Vietnam for 2 half and a years I personally couldn't abide HCM, I just found it lacked character and felt like another big Asian city tbh. Plus district 1 is just a hell hole for the most part.
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Armoured_Bear 29,488 posts
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Registered 9 years agoRyanDS wrote:
Yep, I have
Food tour of Saigon was epic. I dont count myself a foodie, but I do like trying the local food. Oh my God, I would honestly move here for the street food alone. We did 8 stalls or restaurants and every single one was up there with a top restaurant in london. In london I get pho once a week and the one here for £1.20 blew my mind. Ecosse would wet himself (I assume he has already been here though)
Then yesterday got to Hai Phong, 3rd biggest city but feels like a small town. Did halong bay today, my friend who works here organised it, just the two of us, 6 hours on a boat for 30 people and we paid $18. Local knowledge is a killer!
Anyone doing Vietnam, I recomend. Apart from the teachers I have to seen foreigner here. After the hustle and bustle of Saigon it is a different world.
I loved the street food in Vietnam, I had a bit more of it in Hanoi than Saigon, very keen to go back.
Think my top 2 street food towns so far are Georgetown in Penang and Hanoi.
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I think my biggest trip next year will be Taiwan, Penang (to visit a mate who has moved there ) and Japan.
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Registered 9 years agoI'm off to Australia tomorrow, Adelaide till NYE then Port Douglas in Queensland, 2 nights in Brisbane before heading to Hong Kong, 3 days there to break up the trip back home.
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Registered 19 years agoArmoured_Bear wrote:
Yes. Looks mental, glad we aren't going over, we spend the occasional Xmas there.
I'm off to Australia tomorrow, Adelaide till NYE then Port Douglas in Queensland, 2 nights in Brisbane before heading to Hong Kong, 3 days there to break up the trip back home.
I'm going to melt, aren't I?
Last time it was well over 40C in Melbourne. I normally charge about, but had no choice but to walk slowly and take it easy.
You'll probably die in Queensland.
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Registered 13 years agoAustralian Street Food is amazing -
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Registered 9 years agoJono62 wrote:
No it isn’t , don’t torture me!!!
Australian Street Food is amazing -
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Registered 15 years agoWallaby slow roasted on the roadside bushfire, heavenly -
Anything, with a tinny up its arse, on the barbie
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