International Sampoon's vacation 2007

I've had a toxic night, we did the typical thing; plan to go out for dinner, forget to have dinner, go to a bar, come back to hotel hungry, broke and drunk.

We loved the feel of Cat Ba Island and have decided to come and chill out on the island for a few days. The Junk was happy to drop us off, just give them a call and they'll pick us up and take us back to Hanoi.

We have discovered new drinking spots on the island and have found a NZ run bar called 'The Flightless Bird' where I swapped my book and had my first Vodka. Dissapointed with the lack of a pool table we walked along the bay and found the 'Koala Bar', of course an Australian run bar run by a guy from Sydney who sports the most ridiculous haircut. I won the first game of pool and looking forward to not being 'game bitch' if I win. Two half Aussie and half Pom Harry Potter lookalike kids from Hong Kong took over our game halfway through! They kept us entertained for a while until sam eyed the Wild Turkey up high on the shelf. We haven´t seen a sight like that for a while. The next thing I know I´m drinking 20c beers with the locals, peeing in the gutter and eating 4 dollar baguettes full of diahorrea bugs.

Today we spent most of it bed watching crappy MTV shows. We finally felt well enough to walk up and down the strip cheaking out some of the menus. We spotted some Goat and Sea Snails, couldn't do that today. Fried noodles and Springrolls. We checked out the markets and found the strangest creature in a tank in a dodgy restaurant nearby. Looked like an Armadillo cross stringray. Very strange, I've never seen anything like it. We came across some IPOD speakers although the lady tried to charge us $90 US! We told her we saw them for $10 in Hanoi and when we went to walk away she said OK $10, $10! We said no way!, Look at your profit margin! Im sure she doesn't know what a profit margin is. She had the shits anyhow.

So, now Ím on a detox. I have successfully grown a beer belly and now sleep thoughout the day. If we stop drinking so much we might see more of the island. No more grog for me!