Travel Tip: Run out of medication? Filling an Australian prescription can be difficult, frustrating and full-on anxiety. In Ho Ch Minh City, Vietnam, My Anh “Pharmacity Super Drugstore” has pretty much everything and is nearish the airport. Address 1127 Nguyen Anh Thu, Phuong Trung My Tay, Quan 12.
Osteoarthritis
DON’T U HATE IT WHEN YOU’RE TRAVELLING AND…
Phnom Penh dispatches: Something in the water in South-East Asia makes my clothes shrink. A bit more each day until I go home. Hmmm. Anyway, lashing out for lunch today: delicious duck and fresh hand-made noodles ($US4.50) at one of my fav tourist eateries, Davids Noodles…
PLEASURE IN PAIN
Phnom Penh dispatches: Not unlike an Alabama catfish that’s been stunned numb and dumb by an electric eel, I’ve been thoroughly “therapied” by a blind massage therapist; my lumbar osteoarthritis pummelled into submission. Kneaded and prodded like Topolino’s pizza dough. Therapists obviously have varying degrees of blindness: one bloke has a flash Rolex wristwatch, and I catch my therapist with one hand working my arm while the other is checking messages on her mobile phone. $US7 an hour (for foreigners) and well worth it…
U GOTTA STAY SHARP, SON
Phnom Penh: Panda Mart wants US$7 for Gillette razor in the “French End” of tourism precinct; around the corner at Pride of Cambodia Mart it’s US$1.60. That’s 9 chilled cans of Angkor beer difference…
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO ON HOLIDAY AND LEAVE YOUR CAT BEHIND?
“Hey, I’m packed and ready to go.” My son is having a break in sunny Darwin and left his cat, Bubbles, behind with me in Melbourne. Bubbles has taken up residence in my travel backpack…
THE BEST PART ABOUT TRAVEL IS…
Coming home to these two. Doesn’t it feel good to be wanted? Travel helps us to appreciate other cultures and what we have at home…
JUST AN INTERESTING PIC OF THE SUN SETTING BEHIND CLOUDS IN HOI AN, VIETNAM…
LOOKS LIKE AN “INSURANCE JOB” TO ME…
Who #@*&%#g forgot to put in the bilge plug? Hoi An, Vietnam.
JUST A PRETTY PICTURE…
Buddhist River Lotus Festival on the Hoi An “Ancient City” canal, Vietnam.
I’M GUESSING ONE BELONGS TO A BANK CEO…
Locals’ parking on the Thu Bon River, Hoi An, Vietnam.