Psycho Cyclo Driver!!!!!
Thursday, 17 November 2005
Mood:
irritated
We left Hanoi to escape the maddening crowds and over exposure to mopeds. After an interesting journey (The train knocked a man off his bike at a crossing and Den dropped his breakfast, noodles in boiling water all over his lap!!!) we arrived in Hue to a comparatively calm and relaxing city where you hear yourself think.
There is one downside......cyclo drivers who won't take "no" for an answer. Me and Den have taken 2 different approaches. I apologise and say no 3 million times and Den blanks them. Neither approach seems to work, so we have been given some local knowledge and now use the phrase, "Toi khong muon ban di theo toi" which translates as "no we don't want to come with you". Den used the phrase for the first time a couple of hours ago and it seemed to have the desired effect except we spent to next 10 minutes having a Vietnamese pronunciation lesson with the cyclo driver!!!!
