Hoi An
We had breakfast this morning at our hotel the Riverside White House Villa in Hot An. There was lots of fresh fruit, you could order eggs and other items including cornflakes. There was fresh pastries coffee juice etc.
After breakfast we came back to the room and went through some sorting of pictures on the computer and updated our blog. We also did to hotels.com and trip advisor reviews for the places we have stayed recently. Linda scoured the internet for flight information to get us to the Philippines in March.
We packed the umbrellas, jackets and water, then headed to the old town Hoi An. It was quite nice to walk on dry streets, like a different world from yesterday. We got to old town and saw the old covered Japanese Bridge but did not cross it yet we walked around farther into old town and bought tickets to get into all the historical buildings. Old town is funded by charging tourists a fee to keep things looked after. When you go into the historic building they clip a piece off he ticket. The cost was 120,000 VND or $6.75 CAD each. Everyone want to sell you something.
We walked back to old town with the aid our iPhone. Actually we photographed the menu items we liked and the pictures showed up on the map. It was easy to trace our steps back to the same spot we had seen before lunch.
Supper was good, Linda had sweet and sour chicken and pineapple with steamed rice, Gary has sweet and sour fish (white filet) and steamed rice and we shared an order of vegetarian spring rolls that were as good as the ones from he street cafe this morning. All the food with 3 beer total and it set us back $17.50. The Restaurant was called the Bear Garden Restaurant. It was so obscure to find, if we had not wandered by it this morning we would have never seen it. We also did a Trip Advisor review on it. Full points for food and even clean a washroom. They even had full sized chairs, some places have kid sized lawn chairs. Some Vietnamese people are so tiny! We’re afraid to sit in the kid sized chairs!
We headed back to the hotel after supper enjoying the shops along the way. There was only foot traffic with a few bicycles along the narrow streets of old town Hoi An tonight. A pleasant treat after dodging scooter all day long. Pedestrians don’t have any right of way here, its really unfortunate! Narrow streets over run with scooters and no sidewalks for pedestrians. Many of the sidewalks are lines with parked motor scooters or cars and sometimes tour buses.
Tomorrow we pick up our tailored items and find a way to ship them home.
Really enjoying the blog…it is so interesting…nothing like I expected after watching tv😀 suppose to be a break in the weather tomorrow…no windchill of 42 like lately👎 Love to both of you!❤️
Thanks. Today are flying to Nha Trang in the south. Hoping for sunny and warm weather. It rained this morning (Sunday) but the sun finally broke through. Rain plus Sun Equals HUMID!