So it appears the polar ice caps have melted then, which was nice. The streets here in Nha Trang are flooded - I just got my tattoo but still owed 2 million Dong for it, forgotting completely it would come to that much, and had to wade around a whole city block, maybe half a kilometere or more, in water fully halfway up my calves, and the super super brilliant part is that the roads are full of potholes and other exciting hazards invisible through 8 inches or more of dark brown water, and the pavements - well, you cannot walk on pavements here because there are sign and mopeds, little gangs of jeering mopeds mocking all humans, reaching all the way across the pavement forcing everyone into the road, placed by dumb motorists and shopholders literally every 10 yards.

It is quite stupid - no, it is retarded and pretty darmned inconsiderate actually - and anyway, the deepest parts of the rivers now taking over the town are in the gutters, a comprehensive watering well up to the knees (I know, I stepped into a few) so the street is the safest and only place to walk. Except of course there is still traffic, much of it moving at inconsiderate speeds and spraying up 6-foot sheets of aqueous attack, and the lights are glaring blinding here in the dark evening.
It is still raining monsoon-heavy, like nothing you have ever seen in England, quite nothing, I tell you, so it's not as if my legs have suffered when my roso has been spared - my two shirts, trousers and underwear are absolutely waterlogged to the last square micron of cotton

The added bonus for me of course is that wear glasses and every shoplight, headlight and streetlight refracts on the lenses and flares in an impenetrable luminous blur up to around 5 times the actual size of the spot that it is to normal people.
My new tattoo, by the way, is on my right calf and it is big, so that's gonna need completely sterilising and re-dressing as well..

But I'm hapy, I just got another nice big tattoo and it is colourful and wonderful and were I not in a steakhouse; where my USB drive containing the photos of it is patently not; I would show you. But I'll probably stick it up a bit later when I get back to the hotel.

I have a write up of the last two nights coming as well, I have had another 2 days of no sleep yet feel rather cheery nonetheless. I'm trying to indirectly remedy that through the medium of beer with my 2 main course here at the steal house (well, I've earned it, what with the painful tattoo and somewhat arduous watery adventure) but I went oout with new friends nd partied until dawm, literally, both nights and didn;t actually drink the usual gallons of semi-lethal fluids in the process - hence me making it to dawn both times, I guess.

Anyway for now, I'm wet through in a way no-one will actually believe because they just weren't stupid enough to walk in this stuff, and I just felt I had to tell somebody.
See you later