Day 10 Rollin in our Express Train

Time to leave Hoi An, after dropping our clothes off at the post office to be sent home. The post office was great she packed all our stuff up for us in a box, whether she managed to pack our conical hat safely is debatable but we will see what happens.

Anyway today is the lazy day 9 hours on the train, back in our lovely cabin shared with mary and Rollin, we got to admire the countryside and see the sunset though as we travelled along.

Me and Erika decided to go exploring the train, as we are in first class which is a pretty minging cabin we wanted to see what the other classes were like so we started to walk down the train past the 2nd class which was like our rooms but 3 levels of beds ie 6 people, and then into standard class which yeah were just chairs but they did at least have a couple of teles, they seem to like watchin Tom and Jerry. We carried on past them and ended up in the dining cart where all the staff seemed to congregate. We were suddenly the centre of attention and they asked us to sit down with them so we did, there was 2 policemen, the manager of the train his assistant and 1 other, a guy came over from the kitchen who could speak a little english. They were asking where we lived, they got excited when Erika said she was American and they pointed to one of the Policeman. They offered us some drinks which consisted of 333(bababa) beer and little shots of vodka (from a water bottle). Note this was the Police and the manager of the train, who was sharing their drinks. I was a wimp and kept saying no to them though as i kept rubbing my belly and telling them i would be ill. At one stage the manager tried to talk to Erika and was laughing at the colour of Erikas legs compared to mine. She has very white skin as we are discovering to the Asians -white skin is beautiful, brown skin is not. When we left the policeman shook my hand and tickled my hand. When i told Mary she thought this was really funny as it means something rude???

Chatting with Kiem on the train he was telling us about Vietnamese and their relationships with each other. His analgy about life is:
People cant live without rice, just sometimes though people fancy a bit of noodle.
Rice being wife/girlfriend, noodle being bit on the side. Now i know Simon prefers Fried Rice over Noodle, so if he ever changes im gomma get worried ;-). Oh yes and he said to me that he thinks Simon is a Gentlemen.

Arrive in Nha Trang at 10 so went straight to bed, hotel is great its got a swimming pool and right near the beach.