Hoi An was possibly the town I loved best (there is one exception, but more of that later). The first evening I dragged myself out of the hotel which was also really nice. It was called the Little Hoi Hotel and if you ever go there I would recommend it.
We walked alongside the river, and I’ve not mentioned this before, but it was coming up to Chinese New Year and everywhere you looked you could see colourful red lanterns. I saw a huge Trip Advisor poster which listed Hoi An at night in the top 20 things to see and do before you die – well maybe they didn’t have the last bit on there but you get the message. There were performers of all kinds, and cheerful crowds wandering the street markets. It was a fairyland atmosphere.
By the next morning, it was as much as I could do to get out of bed. I was hacking and coughing and on fire from the inside. Within minutes the hotel staff had summoned a doctor – he should have been starring in the movies he was that cute, spoke perfect English as he diagnosed bronchitis, verging on pneumonia. He also informed me I’d not been on antibiotics as I’d though, but throat pastilles of some sort.
He dosed me up, prescribed bed rest and I waved a weak farewell to DH as he went off on his day’s trips.
I don’t remember much of that day, but DH saw this village where they made pottery and a museum donated by a local philanthropist and of course another temple.
Sadly we were to leave Hoi An the next morning and were told we would be escorted to the airport, which was just as well as we had no plane tickets, we only knew we were destined to go to Ho Chi Min City.
THE HISTORY RUBBISH
There doesn’t seem to be much to say about George I except he was pretty boring, kept going back to stay in Hanover, courtesy of the cheap Ryan Air flights and had to talk to his ministers in French as he had no intention of learning English.
But of course they got their own back. Since he didn’t like the way they were so bossy, he chose a few and had secret meetings with them. But then when that big pyramid financial scandal hit, and George and his two ugly mistresses were caught up in it, the ministers got him out of a very nasty situation so he had to be nice to them. This is one of them, Robert Walpole and here he is.
He also had huge fights with his son – boringly called George – especially when young George was very rude to one of the godparents his father had chosen for his son and was rude to him at the christening, George I threw him out of St James’s Place but kept the grandchildren living with him. Pretty mean eh?
Have a great week and if you have a spare moment you might like to pop over to my Amazon author page and take a peep at my books. Beware, this blog contains a monitoring device so I’ll know if you go and look. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lucinda-E-Clarke/e/B00FDWB914/
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lucinda E Clarke 
Oh, I’m so sorry you were ill and missed out on Hoi An. We stayed in the Orchid Garden Homestay which was fabulous and had four days – time enough to have new sandals copied from my own ones – of sight seeing, shopping, eating faulous food and had a day at the beach. I so want to go back.
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Yes, I’d like to go back there as well Mary, it had a great atmosphere 🙂
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Sounds lovely, Lucinda, except for the dose of bronchitis. Certainly a trip to rememeber.
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One reason for getting it down on a blog – so i’ll remember it and for the first time sorting it all out in my mind.
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Poor George!
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well I guess he had plenty of money to console himself with 🙂
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