21.01.05 3.00pm (ish)

For breakfast...pancakes with chopped bananas and hot chocolate sauce and a dragonfruit shake. Have decided I need to have pancakes a lot more often because, goddammit, they're tasty!

After a stroll in the Saigon heat to the market and deciding not to get a pickled snake as a bday treat (treats just ain't what they used to be...), we took a longer stroll to find the park, found a nice patch of grass to sit on under the shade of a couple of trees, bought some coconut juice, got kicked off the grass by the park guard (oddly enough, seems you're not allowed to sit on the grass here) and then found another patch of grass to sit on - but this time on red plastic chairs (see, it's all so civilised here)

And for lunch?? We burnt our lips with some hot beef pho noodle soup