TRAVEL Issue 30 / August 2011
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GUESTLIST IN... ITALY
The Guestlist Network relocated to the beautiful Italian region of Tuscany for one week of bonding and hard work (erm...) in the hills
VIETNAM SPOIL YOURSELF
riously, this month we pinpoint the best of both worlds tal of Ho Chi Minh City, a versatile city where some of from historical and cultural sites
STAY: The Spring Hotel - £45 pn The Spring Hotel is suitable for holiday makers or business travellers alike as it is within walking distance of historical sites, the government office and shopping streets. All rooms offer air-con, cable TV, a mini bar and the usual amenities. Find me: 44-46 Le Thanh Tonh Street, District 1
LUNCH: New World Saigon Hotel - £20 The New World Saigon Hotel serves up some of the tastiest and freshest dim sum in town and is renowned in Ho Chi Minh for their famous roasted duck. The Lychee Martini is also perfectly balanced and worth splashing out on. An all-round luxury lunch. Find me: 76 Le Lai Street, District 1
DINNER: Quan An Ngon - £12 Hidden down a dark street in District 1 is Quan An Ngon, a chain that can also be found in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The menu offers all manner of Vietnamese cuisine and a meal for two costs around £12 with wine and water - an absolute winner. Find me: Pasteur Street, District 1
CLUBBING: Apocalypse Now - £10 This club mainly attracts high society Vietnamese types. DJs spin house tracks and remixes all night long and the club itself oozes glamour with its velvet drapery and gargantuan bottles of Belvedere Vodka. Worth checking out, if only for the novelty. Drinks match UK prices. Find me: 2C Thi Sach Street, District 1
CULTURE: Cu Chi Tunnels - £10-£40 The Cu Chi Tunnels of Ho Chi Minh were used by the Viet Cong guerillas as hiding spots and even living quarters during combat, as well as providing a pipe line to deliver supplies. Visitors are invited to crawl through the safer parts of the tunnels and try their hand at firing a number of guns from a M60 to an AK47. Find me on: Cu Chi Rural District
You have probably realised by now that we at TGN don’t exactly do things by the book. All work and no play makes TGN a dull paper, so we took a break from the office to brainstorm and put together the best issue ever for you guys! We sat on the terrace-turned-bureau both day and night bronzing ourselves, catching the odd firefly (you ever seen one? They are jokes!) and most importantly, coming up with ways to make The Guestlist Network EVEN better. We reckon the fresh mountain air cleansed our minds and gave us that extra boost of inspira- tion; however after our attempt at team bonding turned into a bit of a Jackass experience we thought it best to head back to our East End roots and get stuck into next month’s issue. All our hard graft paid off and we hope you enjoy our biggest issue yet!
guestlist network THINK OF THE PARENTS
For those thinking of going travelling, spare a thought for the parents you leave behind
Nowadays it has become the norm for students or young people to take a few months or a year out to travel the world and ‘find themselves’. After months of grafting enough dollar to book that around-the-world plane ticket, the majority throw a clean pair of pants and a bottle of bug spray in a bag and jet off without a second glance. They spend the next few months having the time of their life, but what about the parents they leave behind? They sit at home agonizing over the worst scenarios they can imagine (often whilst watching television programmes entitled ‘Banged Up Abroad’), whilst ‘reassuring’ emails from their offspring - ‘Hi Mum, I’ve been mugged again but it’s fine, I’m getting used to it’ - do little to comfort them. If you’re thinking about taking a gap year, spare a thought for your poor folks and spare them the unnecessary gory details of your trip. Don’t do as one of our employers once did and send this to your dad: ‘Hi Dad, in Gua- temala City, thought I was staying in the safe part but two people got decapitated just round the corner from my hotel yesterday. How wrong was I?! LOL. Love your precious baby girl x’. Cruel. Just cruel.
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