It is possible to carry a double-bed mattress on a motorised scooter and it is possible to text and drive your scooter while your passenger reads a book!!
Sadly the morning is spent resting a sore-throat headachy virus thingo. Chi (rhymes with ‘see’) picks me up for a motorbike tour of Ho Chi Minh City. He tells me to behave on the back of the bike or he will sell me to Chinese for body parts. I laughed…nervously. After about 20 minutes we end up on some back trails through open swampy country in the city, splattered with strange little communities of people huddled around make-shift camps sat staring at us as we ride through them. Were on the muddy shores if the Saigon River that flows through Ho Chi Minh City. I suddenly get the feeling that perhaps he isn’t joking. Can this gentle little Vietnamese man be involved…
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