Voting day for the NSW State Election in Australia, but here in Vietnam it's day 6 of our riding. After a visit to the My Lai museum and memorial (which was very sad indeed), we visited a local school and passed on a series of gifts (pens, rulers, notebooks, and stuff) to the kids. They sang their national anthem, we sang ours and we sang the "Vietnam Ho Chi Minh" song together. After playing with the kids for a while, we rode for about 36km, during which time I had my first flat tyre, which Huy (one of our local guides) sorted out quick smart.
We stopped for a break in a field and saw an old lady digging in the field. Turned out she had been given money by the government to build a house - she had enough for the bricks, etc, but not to hire the labour, so she was doing it herself. We all chipped in to do some digging and in about 45 minutes had saved her about 2-3 days worth of her digging.
We got to Hoi An and had dinner followed by a trip to a local bar where we let our hair down (knowing that Sunday would be a rest day) and Tony and I won the pool table for the group, so we showed them the "old blokes" still had it. Later we went to a salsa bar but To and Thuy couldn't stand the pace.
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