Exfoliating

At least, I think that's the word for it - scraping off layers of skin. Apparently therapeutic. I can vouch, after several enjoyable days on the beach, that the best way to do it is by being thrown 12 feet over broken shells by a ten-foot high wave. I can practically feel my wrinkles disappearing (or whatever else it is that's supposed to happen).

So once again, it's been a while since I've posted. Although in my defence, I refer you back to the fact that I'm on holiday, and don't need any defence. Also, internet has been a little patchy here, and (believe it or not), I've been doing quite a bit of work for the last few days. Some of the work I did for CEOL over the last few years is going to be a contributed chapter in a new book by the group's director, and I'm furiously editing everything at the moment. Soon will be v. famous published author (not really, but I read the other Bridget Jones book today - v. funny).

Our accommodation is quite nice (no Presidential palace, but hey...), and located right on the beach. Or room is about ten feet from the swimming pool, and about twenty feet from the sea, so there's been lots of swimming. The weather hasn't been quite what we had hoped for (mostly overcast since we got here), but it's still been very warm, so we can't complain too much.

Tobe struggles with the challenges of our new environs...

The only thing we've really done that hasn't been a variant on sitting around or eating since we got to Mui Ne (i.e. the beach) was to head up to the Fairy Spring at the edge of town. There's a river there flowing down from the sand dunes, and the base of it almost all the way up is made of soft sand and clay, so you can walk about two kilometres up the river in the water, to a very pretty waterfall. I didn't bring my camera when we went, but I'll see about stealing some pictures from Tobe and putting them up.

We'll be heading back to Saigon on Sunday, and then leaving Vietnam on Monday to head into Cambodia. Apparently the genocide trials of the Khmer Rouge are just starting in Phnom Penh, which is our first stop, so this might be an interesting time to be there...

Further bulletins as events warrant.