Lauren and I embarked on a journey that was deemed “a long way” by many of our Vietnamese friends. In fact it was only about 25 km and took between 45 mins to 1 hour. It seems that the Vietnamese have a similar perception of distance to Europeans. Our destination was a clothing shop, The Young Store, which is owned and managed by our friend, Phuong who works at Habitat and her husband joined us also. But before you go shopping you have to be well fed and watered. We had a wonderful lunch, one of the best that I have had in Vietnam. The rice was cooked in a clay pot and was similar consistency to sticky rice.
After lunch we went to a bamboo coffee house which was beautiful. On the way we bought mangosteen and they are delicious.
At the coffee house we enjoyed the view of water features and ate mangosteens.
At The Young Store we tried on lots of clothes and looked at the accessories.
I think we shopped till we dropped. After paying for our purchases, we loaded up Oscar (motorbike) and set of into the sunset home after a wonderful day. Thank you Phuong, we loved our day. To see more of the fashion that is on offer check out their Facebook page
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