Ah, Hotel Hoi An , beautiful and luxurious, certainly there's no complaints here (unless its the glass bathroom doors!) If this is only 3.5 star it's plenty good enough. After maybe the best breakfast yet, Trung meets us for a morning's wander round town, and Bob gives strict instructions that we are to stay together and NO SHOPPING. So where do we go? A tailor, a handcraft workshop, an old merchants house and all seem to have goods for us to buy... We see silk worms munching away on mulberry leaves and are amazed by how much they produce (300-900 metres from each cocoon) and women hand embroidering pictures. Then it's onto a bus to a lantern workshop where we show our crafty skills and make a lampshade each to take home.
We are free for the rest of the day, and Bob has recommended some tailors, so there's lots of made-to-measure happening, mainly of the silk variety. And shopping and swimming and relaxing. Happy hour, dinner and a wander around the traffic-free and brightly lit streets completes the day. There's a suggestion that this would be a great place for a return girls week.....
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