{"id":107,"date":"2017-11-12T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bltierney.wordpress.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2018-04-14T02:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T02:38:17","slug":"hoi-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/12\/hoi-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoi An, Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

We decided to slow down the place and settle into Hoi An for 12 days: 5 days near downtown at the nicest $2<\/a>9<\/a>\/night room<\/a> I\u2019ve ever stayed in, and 7 days on \u2018herb island\u2019, not too far from the beach. The plan was to relax, hang out around the room and do nothing a lot, and have a place for Christine to practice what she learned in her cooking class. It turns out our timing was perfect, as Typhoon Damrey<\/a> ensured that we\u2019d have 4-5 days where we had no other choice other than stay inside and relax.<\/p>\n

Before the Typhoon hit Christine did a cooking class<\/a>, and I went to Marble Mountain. I also found a club with live music that let me sit in<\/a> on \u2018lap snare\u2019 and cajon for 2 nights. Unfortunately the bike I rented from our hotel (for $1\/day) got stolen while I was drumming, and they charged me $75. Bring a lock from home if you want to rent a bike here.<\/p>\n

Then the typhoon rolled in, and it was raining and windy for the next 5 days. Luckily we were north of the worst of it, and there was no flooding where we were, but it made going outside pretty miserable. Downtown Hoi An was under about 4 ft of water. We had a great studio apartment from AirBNB<\/a> with a full kitchen, so we didnt need to leave the house, and Christine got to try out all she learned in her cooking class!<\/p>\n

We also did a lantern making class with Hoi An Handicraft<\/a>, which we really enjoyed. We tried to do more classes with them, but they were all cancelled due to the storm.<\/p>\n

We loved our time here, and highly recommend a visit of you can.<\/p>\n

Trump arrived the day we left. We cant seem to escape his influence! We went by his hotel, a brand new Sheraton that apparently they worked on 24×7 to get ready in time, on our way to Da Nang.<\/p>\n

A selection of photos from our time in Hoi An is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We decided to slow down the place and settle into Hoi An for 12 days: 5 days near downtown at the nicest $29\/night room I\u2019ve ever stayed in, and 7 days on \u2018herb island\u2019, not too far from the beach. The plan was to relax, hang out around the room and do nothing a lot,Continue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-asia","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}