Wednesday, May 9, 2007


After much looking, I finally found some tastefull toilet decoration.
The pinnacle of Naive Classicism meets Vietnamese Boudoirism. And imagine you that until then I had been using toilets only to shit and shower. Ra! Almost makes you think what bathroom planners have been doing all of this time with their hands.
Who could tell that a little Vietnamese 3rd rate dump of a hotel would turn the history of toiletry upside down with the funkiest toilet move since the invention of bidets?

In some towns in Vietnam parents glue their kids to monuments in a very localized phenomenon which gives "tourist trap" a new meaning.
They ask you to take a picture and, once it's done, extend their hands and shout "money!".
They seemed too well dressed and healthy, no flies eating their eyelids away, so I decided to not encourage bumming at such an early stage of their development. That's consciencious 3rd world travelling for you.
Rule number one of the 3rd world consciencious traveller: don't interefere with local nature, leave it intact.