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Phuong and Martin getting ready for their early morning swim.
The pool looked good. Very little opacity, indication good, but not very
good sand filters and/or chemical balance in the water. |
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Phuong ready to swim. The main restaurant with a
lovely buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. |
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The counter for eggs and soups.
Worth a try. The main buffet. Phuong in the
background. |
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Phuong at the breakfast table.
Giang at the reception. One that speaks good English. The others barely
speaks English. |
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Phuong is posing in the lobby.
She looks nice. |
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Victory hotel that refused my 55
year old girlfriend to stay with me. I told them a lie and said she will
sleep on the street. What morons. The War
Remnants Museum. This is the Mother of the deads.
Remnants mean something material, not mental. The name of the museum is
wrong. |
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FN (Fabruque National) rifles in
cal .308 left overs from the French. The BAR
(Browning Automatic Rifle) from 1918 that Martin also used during his
military service in 1966. Heavy but good and in cal 30-06 from 1906 when the
caliber was adopted. |
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Some really nice pleasure
dissipators. Thompson in cal .45 ACP. Vietnam's
national day is April 30th. The reason is what happened 44 years
ago. |
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Martin among American airplanes.
The M60 machne gun. Most used by the US military throughout the world. |
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Martin with the Phantom
F5 jet fighter. A little bit about the countires
that fought on the Ameerican side in the War. Thailand was one of them. |
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A few bazookas, nice to
have if the neighbor don't behave. The War Musum
and Martin. |
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Some of the nice stuff
that the American dropped on Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Phuong with the Phantom F5, the most common jet used in the Vietnam War. |
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Various American planes
used. Martin in the shop buying T-shirts and
caps for the folks back home. |
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Phuong outside the
Museum And Martin. |
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The M48 tank and its
track. Impressive, even today. Martin taking a
walk on the museum grounds. |
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Details about the M48
tank above. Som airplanes and Martin. |
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Impressive
double-decker. A nice Gatling gun, cyclic rate 10
rounds a second. |
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Another old American
tank, the M41, old fashinoned. The M107 175mm
artillery piece. Hee are the details. |
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Interlocking rotor
blades. It works. Phuong and the M107. Details
above. |
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Martin and the big 175
mm M107 artillery piece. Martin and a M48 tank. |
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After a rather
depressing musekum visit. nice with a beer on the street.
Beautiful Phantom F5. |
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Martin and an 69 years
old Vietnamese that has lived in Italy for 35 years.
He was honest, he remembered Apr 30th, 1975, but didn't want to
talk about it. Logical, smart guy. |
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Tonight, we go
to
Truong Dog Meat Restaurant, 189/1B Cung Quỳnh, Ho Chí Minh,
Vietnam.
Here Phuong has just woken after a breakfast nap. Life is great.
Phuong and Martin in their Norwegian T-shirts to celebrate May 1st. |
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Our favorite dog
restaurant. Martin was here 3 years ago. Martin
thought this was beer, but it was tea. Very popular in Vietnam. |
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Roasted whole dog. Too
much for Martin The couple, the dog cookers. |
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The dog soup kettle is
always on. Martin ordered dog ribs. Nice, but
the dog had gone much uphill before being slaughtered. |
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Martin with the menu.
One dog rib going down. |
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Martin at the back of
the restaurant that was full. Dog is popular in Vietnam.
Martin on the only vacant table in the restaurant. |
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Phuong and Martin at
the bar in their Norwegian T-shirts celebrating May 1st.
Back at the hotel, a quick drink at the Lobby Bar. |
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