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According to Google translate Tàu Chấm Xanh means Blue Dots so it is officially the Blue Dot Train😂
16th Feb 2019 6:38 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And starvation averted. Found the “buffet car” and got some pork & rice each. Not bad for £1.33 each!
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Plus found the soft seat/non AC coaches, all empty as it’s like sauna in there, plus a hard seat carriage, again no AC, like a sauna and empty! Imaging going from Saigon to Hanoi in those.
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16th Feb 2019 6:57 am
stew 46
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Looks very comfy -------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
D3 SE 05,
110 s wagon 300 tdi SOLD
h top transit
crew cab transit
transit connect
ausa dumper, muck truck .
peljob 2.5 digger
06 L 200 crew cab
16th Feb 2019 7:47 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I’ll stick with the soft seats with AC, much, much nicer.
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Only 8 hours to go!
16th Feb 2019 8:05 am
kajtzu
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The first cabin picture looks just like from Harry Potter so as a foreigner I assume this is how all normal U.K. rail looks for the plebs. the second cabin looks like Heathrow express
(Nice picture once again, keep ‘em coming)
16th Feb 2019 8:16 am
ianm27
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[quote="DSL"]
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4g - could be a problem....... just saying Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
Limo Tint
Blackvue front & rear dashcam
Cruise control switch pack
Bodsy's remote for FBH
16th Feb 2019 2:26 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Prob half an hour to Da Nang, 650m hike to hotel, check in then go find a nice cold beer. It’s been a loooooooong train ride.
16th Feb 2019 2:57 pm
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[quote="ianm27"]
DSL wrote:
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4g - could be a problem....... just saying
Just got told off from SWMBO for laughing too loudly in case I woke my fellow travellers up.
16th Feb 2019 3:01 pm
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Well made it safe and sound to the Iris Hotel, a few hundred metres from the station.
A sight for sore eyes, and numb bum!
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Sadly scooters are no longer stopping!!
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Nice hotel for £21 including a fantastic breakie, only complaint is the AC decided to stop working through the night and things got a tad sweaty. Off to Hoi An, once SWMBO matches up the bus map with reality. She uttered those magic words “it’s not difficult”, whereby the two iPads got rotated by 180 degrees and she’s now about to curse me.
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PS Bus stop is just outside the hotel. Happy days as even though we’re travelling light, 20kg between the 2 of us, it’s not fun lugging the packs around in 30c. I know, nice problem to have but still hot & sweaty.
17th Feb 2019 2:46 am
Discomadness
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Del it’s one of those.... “you don’t know man.... you weren’t there man...” type places then... Jarrod
Current : D3 2007 HSE - AKA the lemon
-beanie grille
-detango with led bulbs
-club body off rebuild. TWICE.
17th Feb 2019 3:19 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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They say that about the 60s as well, unfortunately I can remember those and was there.
Once out of the cities it really was back to agriculture that hasn’t changed for a loooooooooong time. Very easy to imaging the views of paddy fields with ridges between them with the addition of coloured smoke swirling in the downwash of a Huey performing a dust off. We have our secret code for the Vietnam War, we call it “back in the day”. The only sign I’ve seen of those events “back in the day” was an airport with dozens of hardened shelters, i think it was Tuy Hoa air base, home for the Misty FACS after they moved from Phu Cat & before moving to Nakhon Phanom in Thailand. Now where’s my geek smilie?
17th Feb 2019 3:28 am
Discomadness
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The 60’s ? What is that of which you speak ? Lol. I wasn’t even born till the early 80’s. But Vietnam ! I’m not jealous Del. Much. Lol. Jarrod
Current : D3 2007 HSE - AKA the lemon
-beanie grille
-detango with led bulbs
-club body off rebuild. TWICE.
17th Feb 2019 3:53 am
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Think still am in the 80s, well musically anyway.
Hot & sticky bus ride to Hoi An bus station, a couple of km from the hotel. We were in with a few other tourists, locals and cargo. Baggage heaped up front to help squeeze more peeps in the back.
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Pool looks very inviting, looks a cross between a cool, refreshing dip and a maritime disaster, unfortunately we don’t get our room until. ~2:30 so will just have to sit and dream. Or order a beer.
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PS Beer is suuuuuuuuuuuperb.
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Now should I get my overnight made suit tonight or tomorrow, like TG chaps. Wonder if I could look that suave?
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17th Feb 2019 5:51 am
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Well been a volume of full on travelling days so early night today. Hotel is great, just a short walk from the old town. And the AC works a treat, so no sweaty nights like last night.
Hoi An is a major tourist destination so a lot more crowded than we’d expected. Where we had lots of Russians in Nha Trang, here it’s more Koreans (assuming from the South) and more than you can shake a stick at. Not that I’d do such a thing. Mind you there is a Korean mini market just up from the hotel which is already proving handy for drinks & stuff.
Couple of pics of the river.
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And the level of hoochingness.
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For those with a sweet tooth, banana pancakes with Nutella & choc sauce, lovely.
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SWMBO is resisting the lure.
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As am I in the Korean mini mart.
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Jurassic Park on the box, might nod off. Night folks.
17th Feb 2019 2:38 pm
LT
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The image of Robert Duval always comes to mind when that part of the world is mentioned:
2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography
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Wonder if I could look that suave? 
