After touring the War Crimes Museum and the Reunification Palace (a fab 60s building complete with a helicopter on the roof (for the quick departure) and a Mercedes stuck all by itself in a hallway in the basement next to the loos),
we decided to spend Sunday touring the rooftop hotel bars favoured by journalists during the 60s and 70s - the Caravelle, the Rex and the Panorama 33. You could actually see the Reunification Palace, site of two tanks famously breaking through the gates to mark the fall of Saigon, from the Caravelle. We drank odd combinations of fruit juices, and alcohol, all very beautifully presented and luridly coloured.
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Am happy to read the updates. So interesting to hear about the good will of the people and the well-oiled machine. Also, the odes are evocative--I almost smell the chicken. (FYI: the other half of the Jenkins family is now in Vancouver.)
Hurrah - we thought you might be there about this time! So glad AJ has someone to show her newly acquired skating prowess to. Wish we could zoom back for an evening ensemble - but our various comments-emails will have to suffice.
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