Just back from an exhausting but enjoyable school camp to Hoi An. The odd quirk about this lovely little town is that it has the highest concentration of tailor shops in the world. So the kids kept buying us ties - decent silk ties for only 1 or 2$ are a bargain, and we now have many of them! They were impressed that we wore them on camp.

Hoi An is a world heritage site. When I first went there over 5 years ago there was a choice of 3 hotels. Now there are over a hundred. The over-reliance on tourism is scary. There clearly is money around now, but I dread to think what another Asian market crash or Bird Flu scare would do to the people here. I wonder for how much longer we shall still see buffaloes roaming down the beach...