Jo and Hayley's SEA tour

Hi all! Quiet day yesterday, a bit of shopping at the big shopping mall, stocking up on snacks, and a couple of pretty belts for Hayley. She has been a bit under the weather with a tummy bug, but is much improved today. Started our day with a coffee across the lane and then headed to the DMZ bar, looking for a couple that worked there last year, a husband and wife. The wife took us to her family home and fed us interesting gelatinous food that we haven't forgotten. They will be working tonight so will be good to catch them up. We organised a motorbike tour for ourselves this afternoon, and headed out into the countryside. As always the scenery is pretty and interesting. There are many little temples here, dotted throughout the little villages, very ornate. I never get bored of watching life here. We watched women washing clothes in the dirty brown coloured river, and they come out clean. Children pass us on bicycles with their navy trousers and white shirts on their way home from school, in little shacks sewing machines are hard at work, all around us are rice paddies and thick greenery. I always feel inadequate when trying to describe what we see. We stopped at a small museum where a lively ancient woman gave us a demonstration of traditional rice threshing and grinding, also showed us bamboo fish traps and demonstrated pigeon catching with her shoe. Highly entertaining. Not sure what she had been chewing, but her teeth were black and she was pretty spry. We slipped her some dong for her trouble and she gave us a fan each.Was a good afternoon. Planning a picnic at the Citadel tomprrow, hope its overcast! Love to all, and our thoughts are with Glenys. xxxx