March 6: Everyone should have a holiday ...

Everyone should have a holiday, at least once every year

Get on a plane, a boat, a bus, and get on out of here

Us, we went to Vietnam, to celebrate a wedding

Our friends they chose to tie the knot, and now up north they're heading

We did Saigon, or Ho Chi Min, a very busy place

Three days there in a flash hotel, then a drive at walking pace

Two days out on the Mekong Delta, a fascinating sight

Filthy dirty I would bet, but the people are alright

Then on a plane up to Nha Trang, to the six star Mia Resort

Were the weddings guests did congregate, for drinkies and some sport

We lazed around like we owned the joint, a better place I’ve not been

And the wedding was magnificent, a truly splendid scene

Back to the airport, flew to Danang, in a colonial hotel we stayed

Not much traffic in the air, but on the road my nerves are frayed

Met some Aussie blokes who owned a bar, a father and a son

Three TVs with the footy one, who could ask for so much fun

Hoi An is full of history, the French influence still abounds

The sights and smells are mystical, not to mention all the sounds

We strolled around, and ate and drank, and did things at our leisure

Every moment it was wonderful, the place it is a treasure

Then in the air north to Hanoi, for our final days of rest

To Ha Long Bay for overnight, the water was the best

The boat is fine, the food and wine, the view it was a ripper

But peak hour out on the Bay means you need a skillful skipper

Back to Hanoi for two more nights, we're tired and it's cold

Today we did more sightseeing, again, this place is old

Tomorrow morning we depart and go back from whence we came

But you can be your last and only Dong that we’ll be back again

We are both exhausted, we have seen and done so much

It feels much more like a month that we’ve so out of touch

Still so much more to see here and the people are so calm

Yes, we thoroughly enjoyed the time we've spent in Vietnam