Sephine I trust you are not missing me

I always miss you Joe

I will be back in a few days

You have a mountain of mail

It will wait

As Josie might have told you

I am on the Hue leg of my journey

Earlier I visited the car which was driven

By Quang Duc to his famous death

It is a sombre exhibit given the history

But what did amuse me was the way it was treated

In the brochure from the travel company

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Visit the 17th-century active Buddhist monastery of Thien Mu Pagoda and see the car that belonged to Thitch Quang Duc – the monk who self-immolated in 1963 in protest against the treatment of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese regime

In a way we should be celebrating this as Vietnam is at peace

But the way some travel companies mention food and other goodies one minute

And visits to places associated with absolute horrors the next

Never ceases to amuse me

But if you look at the bigger picture

It is really a sign of given the hunger how far we can progress

I agree

I will be in Saigon in a few days and will contact you both then

Josie and I are following you around

Behave yourself

And you

I am off to Macari’s in an hour

So jealous as the coffee out here

Is nowhere near as good

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