I no longer have a mobile phone. The phone in my hotel room is dead. The staff won’t let me use the phone at reception, but they do ask the hotel next door. They won’t let me use theirs, either. I can’t buy Skype credit due to some bug/quirk/feature of their online billing system. These [...]
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, is quite a nice place at 6am. Hardly anybody hassles me (maybe it’s because anybody who arrives here by bus at this time of day has probably travelled the length of Vietnam already and is unshakeable), it’s cool, and there’s hardly any traffic. Picking a hotel was as simple [...]