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you may consider novel idea of paying for the room

it's ok as long as you don't have me in mind

few pictures: pearl farm gift shop as you see money can be made from making wine on Phu Quoc - owner's house getting burned fake Italy and cable car station monster rollercoaster

Phu Quoc island – no boy business at all, other them meeting friend (not gay ) from my hometown. It’s only 90 minutes flight from Da Nang to Phu Quoc but practically it felt I spent whole day travelling . First, my flight was in early afternoon so morning was lazy, just wandering on the streets close to hotel and along Da Nang beach. At noon I checked out from the room , left may bag on reception and did more aimless , yet pleasant walking along the seashore. Car arrived on the dot and for 120000 ( 4.60 $ ) took me to the airport. Then it turned out that flight will depart at 5.30 p.m. instead of scheduled 4p.m.. We landed at 7.p. and knowing my friend will fly in at 8.00 p.m. I decided to wait for him to scare him off. Why ? because he did not have idea I will be in Phu Quoc at all. It worked well, I was greeted with cheerful ‘ what the fuck you are doing here ?” which was met with my response “ none of your fucking business “ . It great to have friends, no ? Why Phu Quoc, specially that I’m not and never was sun and sand kind of person ? And I was there last year ? I think my sister has best explanation – senility sets in, this is what she said after I told her last year I was there and liked it. Truth is , I like beaches there and like sea, warm , calm and very clean, specially on the west , Cambodia facing side, It’s probably only place in the world where I enjoy lazing on the beach whole day. (Ok , lets not exaggerate, half of first day only ). My friend stay in different hotel than me and this was by design as being friend not necessarily means 24 hrs friend , island is quite small so logistics of meeting were easy. I took free bus to my hotel and immediately learned that it’s not free anymore, from Jan 1st it costs 20000 to 50000 depending on distance but as senior I was eligible for reduced rate of 10000. Yes , almost always they checked ID to see if I qualify. First day we went to the beach , it was so pleasant and breezy that I did not notice that consuming 3 bottles of Saigon beer while sunbathing cost me getting burned by the sun . I noticed some color when we were leaving but only in the evening , when it started itching I realized it was quite nasty burn. Second day was devoted to famous cable car, longest in the world over sea ending in amusement park. Admission was 850 000 and this includes cable round trip ride and unlimited use of park facilities, all those tubes , slides and everything self respecting water park should have . Taxi from the city was 240 000 each way. What we noticed was that , compared to year ago it was much more crowded. In fact I did not take ride on their large wooden monster rollercoaster because line was well over what I was prepared to stand in. Day three was tour of the island on organized trip. Very well organized, pick up from hotel was on the dot and it was neatly divided between commercial, sightseeing and relax parts. Commercial part was typical- visiting pearl far, fish sauce factory, pepper plantation and yes, winery where they make wine from some local fruit. Quite drinkable. in all those places there was shop where we could buy whatever we wanted to waste our money on. In fact in pearl farm I bought very nice shirt for 10$.Then quite interesting temple and finally 2 hours on the beach so I could work on getting burned even more. Forth day was day of my departure in the afternoon but we managed to wander through island only city and visited colorful local market. My friend stays another week but I took Air Asia Cambodia flight to Siem Reap.

I will be working hard to make another trip for sure, specially in view of very rewarding recent trip. Only constrains at the moment are financial. Orange Overlord with removal of ' de minimis " exemption effectively ruined my carefully designed financial plan for 2025-2027.

By the way, according to my spies ' Wild Cat " sign is gone. I may mean idea of bar there was dead before it really took off. On another hand , it may be in preparation to put new, proper sign "White Cat ", in few days we should be clear

glad you guys have fun at my expense

retired , with no intention to return to the workforce

or having somebody at bottom of the stairs, pointing at the bar and trying to lure customers in. In that case because truly narrow entrance , just a door width , it was/ is a must.

that's in the books already for very long time. How is enforced it's another story but from time to time we hear about raids and hunt for foreigners working in bars and massages.

so it looks I was part of problem and reason I did not really liked it. Lesson learned , next time I will try to spend 1-2 nights there to see it's full glory

what about this year ? it's only February

some may have different ideas but I have habit of fixing expected tip before hand, if boy doesn't quote anything , I ask them outright " how much you want" . If they say ' up to you " , I tell them what I will give them. If they don't like my offer I usually say " I asked you already and you told me , up to me". That settles matter . Others may simply hand over money to boy at end of session , whatever they think is fair and that approach works too.

Marble Mountain, highest point and place of my winning bet one of temples in the caves angry dragon and cooling down city from above, bye, bye Da Nang, I'm on my way to Phu Quoc

few pictures to enliven the thread Da Nang railway station Campa Sculptures Museum My Son ruins beautifull mountain views from Ba Na hills and fake church in fake village ( rain outside was real)