I've missed blogging or a week, where does the time go??
We have breakfast in our hotel with Cynthia and Alan from Kelowna! They rent a house for 3 months of winter in South Africa and stop off at interesting places en route home!
We head to famed Haven for lunch. Takes 2 days to get a reservation and it's worth it. A swiss couple came here to work in an orphanage and stayed on to establish a restaurant to train those kids ejected from the orphanage once grown, but with no family or community support. Mango salad and fish for me and celebratory dish Amoy Fish for Ted does not disappoint. Presentation fusion and gorgeous. Our lunch guest at next table is the digital editor for Elle Bankok, she's impressed as hell with the food, photos it all. We get her card. May be in Bankok some time. She spent 6 months in London so her English is great.
Later we spend the afternoon at the lovely award-winning Angkor museum, well laid out with AV presentations along the route and a fine collection. The two hours flies, but we need to get back by 4pm (despite the lockdown around the museum and lots of police here for First Lady Obama's visit to Siem Reap today.) We take the evening flight, cool at the airport and comfortable with 4 seats for the 2 of us on the 1.5 hour flight to Danang, destination Hoi An on the beautiful South China Sea.
Our hotel sends a car for the 25km drive, but we don't see anything of the lovely coastline and islands offshore. Into the lovely resort Hoi An Trails (where both friends Gerdy/Jacques and Bruce/Tamara have stayed) we're assigned a room on the 3rd floor no elevator but promised a ground floor room tomorrow! A relief as Ted's knee is not up to this.
Next morning breakfast in the lovely tropical garden, orchids over our heads and frangipani too, and by 9am, they have moved out stuff to a beautiful end room overlooking two streams with Japanese bridges over to the nice pool. Out our side window, we see the rice paddy beyond the hotel fence, and are woken by cockerels, dogs, the neighbours behind the hotel, very rural and a herd of lovely brown cows come by one day too. Booked with our flight, our room is $70 a night, expensive for this town.
We sleep like logs from 11pm to 8am next morning.
We have breakfast in our hotel with Cynthia and Alan from Kelowna! They rent a house for 3 months of winter in South Africa and stop off at interesting places en route home!
We head to famed Haven for lunch. Takes 2 days to get a reservation and it's worth it. A swiss couple came here to work in an orphanage and stayed on to establish a restaurant to train those kids ejected from the orphanage once grown, but with no family or community support. Mango salad and fish for me and celebratory dish Amoy Fish for Ted does not disappoint. Presentation fusion and gorgeous. Our lunch guest at next table is the digital editor for Elle Bankok, she's impressed as hell with the food, photos it all. We get her card. May be in Bankok some time. She spent 6 months in London so her English is great.
Later we spend the afternoon at the lovely award-winning Angkor museum, well laid out with AV presentations along the route and a fine collection. The two hours flies, but we need to get back by 4pm (despite the lockdown around the museum and lots of police here for First Lady Obama's visit to Siem Reap today.) We take the evening flight, cool at the airport and comfortable with 4 seats for the 2 of us on the 1.5 hour flight to Danang, destination Hoi An on the beautiful South China Sea.
Our hotel sends a car for the 25km drive, but we don't see anything of the lovely coastline and islands offshore. Into the lovely resort Hoi An Trails (where both friends Gerdy/Jacques and Bruce/Tamara have stayed) we're assigned a room on the 3rd floor no elevator but promised a ground floor room tomorrow! A relief as Ted's knee is not up to this.
Next morning breakfast in the lovely tropical garden, orchids over our heads and frangipani too, and by 9am, they have moved out stuff to a beautiful end room overlooking two streams with Japanese bridges over to the nice pool. Out our side window, we see the rice paddy beyond the hotel fence, and are woken by cockerels, dogs, the neighbours behind the hotel, very rural and a herd of lovely brown cows come by one day too. Booked with our flight, our room is $70 a night, expensive for this town.
We sleep like logs from 11pm to 8am next morning.
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