Mesdames et Monsieurs, Bonsoir, Je suis dans LIndochine! and please feel free to make any snarky comments on whatever improper French grammar may appear in this column. I awoke early this morning and caught a flight to Saigon (aka HCMC, though many of the locals still use the former)...and because of the early takeoff and my previous night late arrival to mons lits (I was playing The More I see You with Joey Defrancesco...by CD...though it is amazing that he never tires of how many times I want to go through it), I slept through a good portion of the flight and was quite glad to touch down in Saigon as opposed to a cartel runway in Kazakhastan or say, the bottom of the Indian Ocean...I did fly Malaysian Airlines in November from KL to Hong Kong also without incident and, though being the airline of a predominatly Muslim country, also with beer, which I endorse as the best way to get through sitting in a narrow seat, listening to the cries of infants, and eating mediocre food, or not. In fact, I stayed in Kuala Lampur at the Shangri-La which was a great hotel and directly across the street from two outdoor bars that had so many hookers that they spilled out into the street and you could not walk the block without getting accosted by amazing looking women of pretty much every height and hue...so, I guess that there are Muslim countries and there are Muslim countries...a fabulous side show that topped watching the Russian hookers plan their evening attack with tremendously bored chain smoking elan, from the alley behind my vantage point, the first floor bar of the Holiday Inn in Macau...but I digress. Im here for the Asia Pacific Brewing Conference which starts on Sunday, but on the morrow I fly up to Da Nang (which has been left a tremendously large airport for a city of not so great a size) by Bob McNamara who somewhat after the fact came to the conclusion that the whole affaire had been a mistake...ooooooops!and from there taxi to Hoi An, which is supposed to be the best collection of French colonial architecture in the country, a beautiful town along a pretty river that feeds out to the ocean and beaches. I come back on Sunday for the confab. I will probably write more later in the week but just wanted to let all know where I have gone...BUT, I am in a corrupt communist country that seems to have no problem with either Facebook or YouTube. Plus the people are friendly and nice, I really like the food...and if theyd put an ice rink into Hanoi I would have to seriously reconsider my retirement plans. All the best from Indochine, alain
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:53:40 +0000
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