Day 68 – British, French and Vietnamese

We only booked one night in Nha Trang as we wanted to get to Da Nang.

Our hotel for the night is the 4 Star Apus Hotel.

Cost us £12 including breakfast and a rooftop pool!

We only manage a quick wander round Nha Trang again in the morning and a swim in the roof-top pool.

No kids this time. 🙂

Getting chatting to women in the pool, one tells us how she’s been using Trusted House Sitter. To stay in places for free!

2.40pm we board our first Vietnamese train.

And it’s not one of the posh, VIP ones!

Although we are in a 1st class sleeper.

We are top bunkers with two Chinese or Taiwanese people.

Pete’s bottom half is a throat-clearer and coughs a lot. Grim.

Pete manages to find a beer and we lurk in the passage way watching the Vietnamese countryside.

Then our whole night changes.

We meet a Frenchman that has been travelling a year in Oz.

Mullet. Beard. Rugby player – loud!

We spend the next 4 hours in the food car with the locals giving us food and beer.

With the frenchman constantly shouting ‘Yo Vietnamese’ to the whole carriage and being a rugby type; eating a whole chilli!

It’s chaos, all cheers-ing and using Google translate!

At least 6 cans each!

We are ushered back to our beds at 8.30pm.  Zzzz

We get in to Da Nang at 1am.

Probably the most surreal, impromptu, and most enjoyable experiences we had on the whole trip.

Just need a joke that starts…”There’s an Englishman, Scotswoman, Frenchman and Vietnamese man on a train..”