Yesterday was pay day so I have been out spending! We went for dinner after work yesterday and we went to the Czech beer place near work where the sell the closest thing to decent sausages that you can buy in Vietnam. I sampled both the German and the Czech ones and whilst they were good in terms of what you can buy in this country, they weren't a patch on the ones you can buy back home!

Today I went into the Old Qarter and met up with Alison and Calder for a feast of eggs benedict then we set off to browse the DVD stores. Got myself a few more box sets, including the Blackadder one after talking about the show last night, and picked up a coupleof American trash mags at one of the DVD stores. I miss magazines! I also had to buy a new pair of hair straighteners as mine have finally died and I had to replace my hearphones after some lame Vietnamese person couldn't wait to let me our of the lift before getting in so instead chose to push past me. He caught my headphones on his bag and pulled them out of my mp3 player and trashed them in the process. Thanks!

The biggest expenditure of the day tho was hiring a motorbike. It has been delievered to me and is sitting outside my house looking menacing. Tomorrow Alison is gonna come and help me get to grips with it and then on Monday we might venture out of Hanoi to get me some biking experience. Aargh!