Born to ride
2nd April 2010 Our Easy Rider guide Hiep was at the front of our hotel at 8:30am this morning as promised. He had brought along Gong, another Easy Rider who also spoke English, also as promised. Considering these guys have had no schooling and have taught themselves English, their language skills were really quite good. The accent, as ever with the Vietnamese (who very rarely get taught by English native speakers) could be a little hard to understand at times. But again, once you get your “ear in”, and because you are one on one you can ask questions. At one point during the day Gong even wished me “iechyd dda” (cheers in Welsh for the uninitiated!) which amazed me - he had had 2 Welsh people on a recent tour! ...