The next leg of our train journey down the coast of Vietnam was from Danang to Nha Trang, the beach resort/party town of the bunch. This time, we were trying out a 6 berth hard sleeper cabin, which we had chosen so that we could all bunk in together, rather than because we liked the sound of hard beds! We'd used an independent travel agency (Vietnam Impressive - which they actually were) to book train tickets this time, with much more success. On their suggestion, we bought the sixth bed for our inflatable mascot "Stewie" to save being placed with a random.
The train was, as ever, delayed and we played cards in the waiting room to pass the time, only to look up and find a bunch of vietnamese teenagers hovering over us. Apparently western tourists playing an unknown card-game was too interesting to even pretend to ignore. We gave up playing in the end, as none of us could concentrate on our rummy strategies, and because we were too fascinated in return at the motley crew of Vietnamese locals turning up for our Saturday night train
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