Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Vietnam - Stop, look, listen

You've got to be on the watch for traffic all the time in Vietnam. Frogger fans from the 80's would fare well because you need video-game faith that a collision won't really be fatal. It won't. Drivers swerve and never hit you. Not deliberately, anyway.

It's not just the road where you have to watch it. I was nearly mown over in a lingerie shop. Just quietly inspecting knicker elastic when a moto drove up off the street and right in through the glass door where he parked between the rows of fancy bras and the silky pyjamas. You're not safe anywhere.