Just back at the hostel in Hanoi after a fab 3 day tour in Halong Bay & Catba Island, Vietnam.
It was Indiana Jones style jam packed with activities including kayaking, boating, jumping of the roof of aforementioned boat into the water at night*, trekking up a moutain, running from coca-cola swizzling, oreo-munching, banana-stealing monkeys on Monkey Island, laughing along with our funny guides (called B4 and Lucky**), chatting with more fellow friendly travellers than we've met for the rest of the 2.5 months combined, eating our weight in squid and rice and playing drinking games on board the boat at night with other English and Irish packpackers.
I am proud to say my Fuzzy Duck skills are still finely tuned from Uni & The Heard drinking sessions. And I have discovered a dormant talent for a delightful game called 'Penny up the Bum'. I won the final and am now the International champion of this game. (All part of the lesser known Asian Games 2009, held here in Vietnam). Best described or even better still demonstrated in person, I just couldn't do it justice on this blog...
My legs are like jelly today though- we call this 'new born foal' syndrome when your legs don't behave themselves and threaten to collapse beneath you in an ungraceful manner. I'll quickly add that this was from all the trekking and scrambling down mountains and nothing to do with the 'Penny up the Bum' game.
Still, ace trip all round
* Kieran did this, not me before you all fall off your chairs with shock
** I suspect these are not their real Vietnamese names
3 comments:
sounds great!! Drinking games I am glad that I can say my friend is the international champion!!!
can't wait for the demo
yep, ladies, you are in the online presence of a penny up the bum international legend. who'd have thought I'd have such talent?? wasted all these years...
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