Gosh it has been so long, almost exactly one year since this blog has seen any action. I am so sorry for not keeping up. Between work, family and a little me time, I’ve had little bandwidth to keep up with this hobby of mine.
But there is a good excuse today. I am in Ho Chi Minh City, 12 years later, on a whim! I booked the tickets to fly here a week ago and ta da now I am actually here on this very ground, alone and free of children. My only companion, my trusty Eevee. (Husband caught up with work so it really is just me…)
Anyway not going to write a long post here. First impressions of the city… It is still developing so most part of it looks unfinished. Houses are flat and pretty homogeneous in looks. There has been an addition of an ultra modern skyscraper which dominates the otherwise uninspiring skyline of the city. The number of motorcycles on the roads have thankfully cleared up quite a bit though the incessant peep peep can still be heard echoing through the city. There are more neon lights and it seems like the city has become a lot more lively at night. What has remained the same – the streets are still traumatic to cross albeit there are some semblance of zebra crossing markers and pockets of traffic lights now. And innocent tourists are still fleeced of their monies. Twelve years older and still I got bitten twice today and feeling super sore about it.
Anyway I’ll leave Eevee to do the rest of the narrative.
PS. For my trip back to airport, I hailed a Vinasun taxi and the trip cost me only VND157, 000 by meter. So meter isn’t the culprit here, probably the taxi I took was not from a reputable company.