I`m sorry this is getting completely out of Sync, and i promise the rest of Vietnam will be in a much more chronological order, but i forgot to mention this random moment that happened off the plane and it probably deserves a mention...
I arrived off the plane to Hanoi to the usual "want a taxi, cheap price for you" which i said no to and jumped on the bus. This is where things went a wee bit weird. I sat next to just this random guy, skinny, glasses, he introduced himself as something, i can`t remember, i`ll call him jack (oh that reminds me i was talking to two students at the lake the other day and one said he`d choose his English name (you can choose your own English name when at school) to be jack, as his brother had picked "Micheal" and their surname was "san" basically he thought it was the funniest thing to be able to say Micheal Jack San when introducing themselves. He laughed at this story quite a lot until straight faced said "not so funny now he dead")
So anyway back to the bus jack, i asked him if he could tell me where the bus drops us so i could find my way to the hostel and he said he could show me to where the hostel was instead., i thought ok, suppose he could just be being nice and he was fairly weak looking so i thought at worse i could take him.
He then paid for my ticket (cheers) and on route to the hostel asked if i wanted a coffee "yeah sure" (free is free when all said and done, even if his plan was to drug me and steal all my organs, which he didn`t by the way) Then after this really nice, undrugged, cold coffee he showed me to the hostel. He then asked if i fancied seeing his cyber cafe??..."urmm not sure, hell why not" he said he had pro evo, that was enough for me. Actually he said "do you want to get beat at Pro Evo!" which sounded like fighting talk :D
He paid for the taxi there and true to form there was a real cyber cafe and next door was the promised Pro evo building. Lines of 42 inch LCD tv`s all accompanied with 2 people competing against one another.
He seemed to be head of this cyber mafia i`d somehow found myself part of and i was given someone else's seat at a TV (awkward) he took the pad and passed me another one and as everyone had gathered to watch, all laughed as i got beat quite badly. "re-match" he says. "Fine by me", and this time i score first, to absolute silence. He was fine and still smiley but the rest just looked at me and although didn`t say anything, i somehow got the impression i wasn`t supposed to win. With or without organs there was no way i`m letting someone win. So we just carried on like that, every time i won, i got death threat looks and every time he won got a round of applause, and at the end he just turned to me and asked if i was tired, i said yes, and then someone wheeled out a bike and he rode me back to the hostel......video below :D
It was an absolute insane day, i`d lost my travel partner, nearly missed my plane, been looked at in disgust by the visa people in Nam (that`s another story to be told in person i guess) and spent the night playing Pro evo in a building more suited to cooking up heroine than playing computer games.
ok sorry about that...fast forward back to now>>
4 comments:
definitely NO way to the bike just seen the video mumblackpoodle
Hello Richard
I'm Tiến - Mrs Sang's Brother.
Please visit my house at 321 Ngo Xuan Quang - Nong nghiep 1 - Trau Quy Gia lam Ha noi . It's at the end of 11th bus line in Hanoi.
Call me : 0913237718
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hello hun,
Really enjoying reading about your travels :D
Take care, see you on MSN soon
Kxxx
Tha video is mental how didnt you sh*t your pants the traffic is horrendous....as for managing to paly PRO EVO on your travels is just legendary mate bet you never thought you'd be able to put that on the blog dude!!!
Hope everything is going well pal!!
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