Getting back into the swing

After a frustrating few days in Hoi An with my leg, we then were hit by Chris getting a tummy bug which we thought would be OK in no time, but that was not to be as when she felt better we were suddenly back to square one, so with little food in her (the minimum to do any damage) we took the flight to Ho Chi Mhin City ( HCMC ) and the refuge that.  Emma Sheppard would provide to assist the he along process for us both.  Being the great host she is we were met at the airport and " shepherded" back to the ranch where the comforts of home were available (as opposed to hotels) and a warm and friendly atmosphere to aim to improve our health for the last leg.  All seemed to be going well with Chris's medication and then overnight we had another setback so Emma gave her some new French medication that she had recently successfully taken, so at that point Chris just went for it as we had been tied down in and around Emma's complex, just sunbathing and swimming and boring things like that, confinement was not as bad as it sounds eh!
Anyway with my leg improving ( as long as I could rest it regularly) and Chris on the mend we took a trip into HCMC to do the sights seeing that we should have already done as we were running out of time.  We will do the same tomorrow and then spend what time we have left here either in HCMC or with Emma hopefully enjoying some nice meals and drinkies..
Emma has a motorbike to get her round, the only way to travel here really, so she turned up from work the other night saying that there was something wrong as it wasn't steering right, so on her arrival back at the ranch we went to look and established that she had a puncture, the chap parked next to us saw this and said she should call the man to fix it, and then proceeded to take her across the road and started pointing at the fence, so I thought he was pointing through the cracks to guide her to Mr Fixer but no, apparently the local tyre repair man has his name and phone number on the fence so with our assistants help with the lingo on the phone the repair man was there within minutes and the tyre inner tube repaired and blown up, the other tyre inflated to the correct pressure and a quick adjustment of the chain, all done within half an hour and for a few quid, how good is that (photos included)

So we're on the way to Kuala Lumpur on Monday and will be staying with Chris's cousin Richard who has lived in foreign parts for many years, holiday amazingly nearly over, hard to believe, so will be reporting from KL next week and then uhhhhhh cold old blighty the following week rounding up  on our fantastic experience,  oh well got to go its pre dinner drinks time!!!! And it's all done in the best posssssible taste!!!!!