Today I took a motorbike tour of the countryside near Hue. My driver, Thinh, was my cyclo driver from yesterday (not another shocking coincidence, I liked him so I booked it after I was done being cycled). I see tombs and ruins and pagodas, and Thinh takes me to his old Pagoda where he was a monk for 11 years and I see how a working monastary runs here.
I also ask to drive the bike, and apart from one or two hairy moments (stalling approaching a crossroads) I feel pretty good about it. Thinh calls me a safe driver, which I'm pleased by. I'm getting smoother gear changes and feel in control pretty much all the time.
I mean to kill some time in Hue before my bus to Hanoi but it is so unbearably hot and humid that I'm forced to sit inside and drink cheap fruit smoothies. When my bus does arrive it's a sleeper bus - the seats all fold back significantly. I am too big for the seats though, and they are playing music very, very loudly. Thank god for both the earplugs I invested in a while ago, and the 10mg of Diazepam (Valium) I optained, legally, a few hours ago. I take two and am just feeling heavy and thinking about placebo effects when
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