Saigon – Day 1

Rather than the usual list of sights and things we’ve eaten I thought I’ll try and find one picture to try and sum up the day… This – slightly blurry – picture was taken in a Cuban (!) bar in downtown Saigon – really friendly people, great drinks and a Vietnamese business woman sitting by the bar enjoying a cigar that – the landlord claims – was rolled on the premises with real Cuban tobacco. Not only did this bar remind me of a holiday with my friend Keith in Tuscany many years back (when his highlight after many churches was a bar where we ate chips and watched football…) but it also shows the fact that a) you can feel at home wherever you are and b) we have arrived in Saigon but maybe not yet in Vietnam…

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