About town

After a leisurely Sunday breakfast listening to CBC, we headed downtown, to the popular District 1.  There is a park on our way where native English speakers are approached by students who ask for an impromptu English lessons.  They come equipped with pad and paper in hand.

Frank quickly found himself surrounded and happily gave them a few gems.  This is a typical Sunday activity.

A view of the park.  We then walked through Bin Than Market which has dozens of narrow aisles with hundreds of stalls.  Vendors are anxious to sell you something. This is all under one roof.  For lunch we ate at a beautiful open air Vietnamese  restaurant.  Part way through our meal the heavens opened and we had another Biblical downpour.  

Many buildings still remain from the French colonial era.

I aborted a trip to the Art Gallery as we were caught in the downpour and I was feeling a bit like a drowned rat.  So we lingered at a French pastry shop and watched the rain and enjoyed the cracking rumble of thunder. Hardly a boring place.