other than dancing, have been lying on the beach a fair bit .. its excellent here, all the food, bracelets and souveniers you could ever want, comes to you ... so you really dont need to ever get out of your beach chair ... we have stayed longer here than expected and are feeling pretty settled at this point. also started a bit of a united nations .. meeting some english, argentinian, japanese, american and of course other aussies ... and lets not forget the israelis (karen - they are still not that keen to talk hebrew to me!!! i need you as an enticement ...)

also, took a day trip to doc let beach yesterday .. 100km round trip .. we went on a motorbike (this place really is the "honda dream") ... was amazing scenary and thousands of other bikes competing for road space.... the beach was gorgeous and we really saw some of untouched vietnam and the people ... ofer has become a pretty seasoned rider... rachel just hangs on for dear life!! parents - dont worry we are fine, although u wont be happy about the pictures - no helmets here!!

moving to hoi an, a riverside town where you can make heaps of cheap clothes, soon ... will no doubt come back with lots of strange fitting garments ... 

ofer has reverted to his israeli self and is really busting the vietnamese people ... he now doesnt ask how much things cost but decides what he thinks is fair and shoves that note in their face .. it actually works!! we had a vietnamese woman swearing at us yesterday when we would only pay "too cheap" a price for some crappy singlets .. the way we knew we got the right price, when they didnt smile when we left the store (just shows you how many times they were not only smiling but laughing when we had gone). 

few private messages:

greenbergs and nemeses - thanks for your emails!! just hard to reply to all, but enjoing reading

domnu - good to hear you are back from the army safe and sound. very sad to hear about hapoel tel aviv!!

ant - happy belated birthday ... we know it was a few days ago ... hope you had a great night and got very drunk!!

rob - we think we had your email address wrong before, but should be right now. hope everything is ok at work - sorry but cant say i am missing it ... 

juj - accom is excellent and very cheap ... good, clean hotel rooms for about $AUS15. also, ofer will also tell you very good toilets. and FYI - you were the only one this morning!!! impressive, hey?

karens - thanks so much for your prolific emailing ... and yes, one of our dinner conversations was taken up by discussions of your activities ... 

danielle - thanks for the email.  amit would really love the fishing here = they have these crazy little round boats but catch excellent fish!! 

israeli people - dana, hagit and ady - hope all is well ... and you enjoyed the wedding, sounds good. ady, sorry about hapoel. ofer got up early to check the results after dreaming about the match all night .. he should really have better things to dream about but anyway!!

hagit - just a reminder about the earring back from sterns. would be great if you could please ask your friend dana to send one to us in australia  ... thanks a lot!!!

guy - still clicking ... lots of photos, almost 5 rolls .. and you would really love this place!! can you also say hi to yaniv, we know he isnt on email ... 

adam - where are you??? hope you havent been sucked up into a library hole in canberra... are you still commuting or become a local yet?? hope all is well and u arent studying too hard

jay-jays - yep, communist country.  glad u like the book and good luck for the 27th!! 

sash - the motorbikes are def made here!! 

royster - were def thinking about you when we rode to doc let beach ..very scary at times.  send love to tara and we are already dreaming of the tuna salad / club sandwich when we get back!!