… And so we arrived in Saigon 🙂

Our taxi from the airport (let’s call him Captain Kirk!) had a cute little robot projecting a glowing starry night sky to the car ceiling which made it look like we were traveling in space !

Saigon has about a gazillion scooters on its streets. Of course it’s a rough approximation but it gives an idea. It is a true Asian city in the sense that crossing the street and staying alive seems like a miracle. Something like walking across a bee hive without touching any.

Of course we tried the street food market with its hatched quail eggs, barbecued seafood and snails… they even have street lobster!

Besides street food, we also ate Indian food. Mary was so happy to finally find decent India restaurants that she couldn’t resist.

In Saigon I found only two types of people who wear the traditional « Chinese hat » : the poorest street vendors and the tourists coming out of the famous post office designed by Gustave Eiffel.

Vietnamese is pretty much impossible to pronounce for the average mortal. It’s a tonal language which make everything sound like a cute little song. But some words a lot easier than others. I’ll let you guess the meaning of these: « cà phê », « cà rốt », « bia », « xa-lát »… Even « Ga », the word for « train station » is actually the french word « Gare »!

It’s extremely hot here. And unlike the Philippines, we can’t just go jump in the nearest waterfall. Eventually we used “the Indian technique” : we went to the cinema to sit in an AC room for a couple of hours! And we went to see the craziest movie I’ve seen in a long time: “Everything, everywhere and all at once”. The movie takes the most far fetched route to tell you that kindness is all that matters. It’s so nuts that it’s not allowed for kids, so Leo was alone, watching Shazam in the next room.