Woke to the quiet in my room, that is,
other than the normal random noise from the alley. Sounds of people getting their day on, food
vendors, the ever present motorbike sounds - horn beeps and buzzing engines
charging past under my window.
Soon to find the quiet in my room was due to
a power outage silencing the drone of my ageing air-conditioning unit.
Showered in the dark, skipped the shave, just too dark to
see what I was doing and dressed.
The night before I’d had 3 or 4 rum and cokes, no hangover
this morning but had this funny feeling in my stomach I often get. As an experiment recently I’d given up rum and
cokes for a couple weeks and my stomach improved. Does that mean I need to give up the rum? Anyway
for years I’ve had this problem, even before my daily rum but all kinds of
tests in the states and over here give no conclusive results. So I take Gaviscon, chew gum and exercise for
relief. Even a few rum and cokes at times seem to take it away but the next day
its back with a vengeance.
However, I’ve been thinking that the old school pho I’ve
been breakfasting on, while tasting so good, might also be part of my stomach
problem. So this day I went in search
for a stomach healthy food to breakfast on and found a tourist style restaurant
offering a yogurt parfait, croissant and an iced coffee. Oh, by the way the
change in breakfast didn’t make any difference in the way my stomach felt.
Wondering if the power is back on in my room and wistfully
thinking about a more upscale place where they had a backup generator.
Make the walk back to the room, still no air, so drag out one of those little plastic chairs and site in the alley and wait. Really, overall not all that strange, just another day in Saigon.
Make the walk back to the room, still no air, so drag out one of those little plastic chairs and site in the alley and wait. Really, overall not all that strange, just another day in Saigon.
