The big adventure for day ten of my Vietnam visit was a quest to explore The Citadel, also known as the Imperial Palace. We failed in that attempt, mainly because my map app, Waze, led me astray. Nevertheless, we saw some parts of Hue we wouldn’t have otherwise visited, got in some extra steps, and passed by our intended destination on the return journey. So, now I know where the Citadel is located, and I learned not to trust Waze. No big deal, we found our way back there this morning.
I’ve got to hand it to this sculpture we saw while passing through a riverside park.A Swan in a shady spot.These kids and their teacher came running up to greet us as we passed by.Turns out they were English students, and they got to practice their greetings with a native speaker. Good job!Another statue in the park. Mother and child, ain’t that sweet?Wait a minute! What the hell is he doing back there? Well, I guess that’s one way to keep from having another baby.Crossing over the Perfume River.A marketplace on the other side of the river. This is where Waze first fucked with me. The Citadel is to the left; it had me turn right here.I’m not sure what this is supposed to be, but there it is.Insane motorbike traffic (going in both directions) made passing through that narrow wall opening on foot more than a little scary. And yeah, I figured the wall meant we were close to the Imperial City, but alas, that proved not to be the case.We did see another temple-like structure.And damn, Kevin Kim is a big man around here. Or a dead one.A bridge we didn’t take. About 500 meters further up the narrow road we were walking, Waze announced we had arrived at our destination. Except there was nothing there other than a couple of decrepit houses. Fuck you, Waze!
I plotted a course back to the hotel using Google Maps, and off we went.
We passed through another narrow wall opening, but this one didn’t have a traffic jam to navigate through.Y not?Our route home took us past our intended destination. We decided to save it for today.Back on the river.Our hotel is on the other side of that bridge.
Back to the room for some rest, a blog post, and a shower. Then, we were off again.
All dressed up and ready for dinner.A river cruise is on our agenda for later today.We saw this floating restaurant on our morning walk, so we decided to come back and give it a try. It’s up on the roof.We were the only customers, but they were setting up for a big birthday celebration later in the evening.The river view from our table.My first beer of the day. I’m becoming quite fond of Huda. And they had wine in Swan’s favorite flavor.Pork on a stick for Swan……fish and chips for me. Neither was anything special, but they filled a void.
After our meal, we took a stroll through the tourist district, but didn’t see anything that enticed us to stop. So, we ensconced ourselves at the DMZ and enjoyed some additional alcoholic beverages before crossing the highway to the hotel and calling it a night.
The idiot vlogger Vitaly has been deported from the Philippines (and he’s damn lucky they didn’t hold him in jail for years pending trial). I saw this on Facebook this morning, and if it is legit, he’s still an asshole.
From the September 2016 LTG archives is the final chapter of my taking sand to the beach experience with the Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke.
Today’s YouTube video is a walking tour of some of the buildings in the Imperial City complex. I’ll share my photos in tomorrow’s post.
Time for the smiley part:
Hope he didn’t get the short end of the rope.It’s what’s inside that counts.You can get arrested for shoplifting!
Here’s the song my nephew sang at the gathering after my mother’s funeral:
4 thoughts on “Day ten, lost again”
of my taking sand to the beach experience with the Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke.
Spot the error! Feel the terror! We’ve been over this one a million times.
We failed in that attempt, mainly because my map app, Waze, led me astray.
Why not use Google?
I’m not sure what this is supposed to be, but there it is.
Did the untrustworthy Waze or Google Maps label that location? At a guess: it’s a religious spot. Out front is a huge brazier filled with sand to hold up incense sticks. Lots of dragon imagery (look at the building in the background, too), and the brazier appears to have a phoenix by it, too (on the left). In Korea, dragons find themselves at temples as well as at sites devoted to royalty; phoenixes are more explicitly associated with royalty, but in this instance, I suspect the whole property is more religious than royalty-focused. That’s just my guess. You didn’t step onto the property to take more pics of the building? None of the building’s doors were open to reveal, say, Buddhist statues and paintings and meditation pads? Well… next time you pass that way (maybe on your next trip), please gather more clues, and I’ll do what I can to solve the riddle of this place’s name and function. Meanwhile, I need to study up on Vietnamese Buddhist iconography and royal symbolism so I can identify things correctly.
We did see another temple-like structure.
The Chinese character on that golden-looking brazier looks like 德/덕/deok, which means “virtue.”
And damn, Kevin Kim is a big man around here. Or a dead one.
According to AI, that yellow sign says:
KIM HUNG GOLD PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS: 94 MAI THUC LOAN STREET, PHU XUAN WARD, HUE CITY PHONE: 0932449853
A bridge we didn’t take. About 500 meters further up the narrow road we were walking, Waze announced we had arrived at our destination. Except there was nothing there other than a couple of decrepit houses. Fuck you, Waze!
When I’m walking across South Korea, Naver Map occasionally goes nuts and does me wrong. But that’s one time out of a hundred, so I still think of the app as trustworthy. Has Waze otherwise been okay, or does this sort of problem happen a lot?
Y not?
“Pharmacie” is the French spelling of “pharmacy,” so you’re seeing a bit of linguistic history from Vietnam’s French-occupied past. In German-speaking regions, pharmacies are labeled with the Greek “Apotheke” (ah-poh-teh-keh, orig. “storehouse”), like the archaic English term “apothecary.”
After our meal, we took a stroll through the tourist district, but didn’t see anything that enticed us to stop.
Oy gevalt. This error yet again. What’s the simplest possible correction?
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of my mother’s passing.
Respect to your mom.
The idiot vlogger Vitaly has been deported from the Philippines (and he’s damn lucky they didn’t hold him in jail for years pending trial). I saw this on Facebook this morning, and if it is legit, he’s still an asshole.
Come to Korea, Vitaly! Try that shit here. The PI should have amputated all his limbs before deporting him.
It’s what’s inside that counts.
I see one error in that meme.
Well, sorry to read that there had been navigational issues. If Waze is misleading you often, just stick to Google Maps. In some parts of the world (like La Rochelle, France), Maps will even offer you 3D renderings to navigate an area.
Kevin, how about: of my experience taking sand to the beach with my Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke. Are you sure you’ve told me a million times? Honestly, I’m not seeing it.
I’ve had the Waze app for years, but lately it’s become unreliable. Google it is!
Ah, I didn’t know that “pharmacie” is a French word. Now it makes sense. Most of the signage isn’t in English, so it’s nice to see something familiar, even if the spelling isn’t what I’m used to.
Does removing the comma before “but” fix the problem?
The meme error is “your” instead of “you’re.”
Yep, when I have a ways to go in the future, I won’t use Waze to get there.
Kevin, how about: of my experience taking sand to the beach with my Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke. Are you sure you’ve told me a million times? Honestly, I’m not seeing it.
You’ve fixed the problem without even knowing what the problem was. As we’ve discussed a million times before, hyphenate phrasal adjectives when they precede the noun they modify.
• of my taking-sand-to-the-beach experience with the Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke.
Before the noun “experience” is a phrasal adjective. You really ought to be able to see that by now. Your correction works because you shifted the position of “experience” so it is no longer preceded by the phrasal adjective. Now you know. Until the same fuck-up happens yet again, anyway.
Does removing the comma before “but” fix the problem?
Yes, but WHY? Because it’s a compound predicate, i.e., two actions done by one subject.
WRONG: She sat down, and farted.
RIGHT: She sat down and farted.
WRONG: …we took a stroll, but didn’t see anything
RIGHT: …we took a stroll but didn’t see anything
The meme error is “your” instead of “you’re.”
Yes.
Until you learn to recognize these same problems that keep cropping up again and again and again, you’ll have learned nothing. Knowledge isn’t knowledge if you fail to apply it when you need it.
Kevin, in my defense, “Sand to the beach” was the blog post title I was referencing, and it is unhyphenated. But yeah, I should do better in general. I just need to stop and think about it more than I do.
of my taking sand to the beach experience with the Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke.
Spot the error! Feel the terror! We’ve been over this one a million times.
We failed in that attempt, mainly because my map app, Waze, led me astray.
Why not use Google?
I’m not sure what this is supposed to be, but there it is.
Did the untrustworthy Waze or Google Maps label that location? At a guess: it’s a religious spot. Out front is a huge brazier filled with sand to hold up incense sticks. Lots of dragon imagery (look at the building in the background, too), and the brazier appears to have a phoenix by it, too (on the left). In Korea, dragons find themselves at temples as well as at sites devoted to royalty; phoenixes are more explicitly associated with royalty, but in this instance, I suspect the whole property is more religious than royalty-focused. That’s just my guess. You didn’t step onto the property to take more pics of the building? None of the building’s doors were open to reveal, say, Buddhist statues and paintings and meditation pads? Well… next time you pass that way (maybe on your next trip), please gather more clues, and I’ll do what I can to solve the riddle of this place’s name and function. Meanwhile, I need to study up on Vietnamese Buddhist iconography and royal symbolism so I can identify things correctly.
We did see another temple-like structure.
The Chinese character on that golden-looking brazier looks like 德/덕/deok, which means “virtue.”
And damn, Kevin Kim is a big man around here. Or a dead one.
According to AI, that yellow sign says:
A bridge we didn’t take. About 500 meters further up the narrow road we were walking, Waze announced we had arrived at our destination. Except there was nothing there other than a couple of decrepit houses. Fuck you, Waze!
When I’m walking across South Korea, Naver Map occasionally goes nuts and does me wrong. But that’s one time out of a hundred, so I still think of the app as trustworthy. Has Waze otherwise been okay, or does this sort of problem happen a lot?
Y not?
“Pharmacie” is the French spelling of “pharmacy,” so you’re seeing a bit of linguistic history from Vietnam’s French-occupied past. In German-speaking regions, pharmacies are labeled with the Greek “Apotheke” (ah-poh-teh-keh, orig. “storehouse”), like the archaic English term “apothecary.”
After our meal, we took a stroll through the tourist district, but didn’t see anything that enticed us to stop.
Oy gevalt. This error yet again. What’s the simplest possible correction?
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of my mother’s passing.
Respect to your mom.
The idiot vlogger Vitaly has been deported from the Philippines (and he’s damn lucky they didn’t hold him in jail for years pending trial). I saw this on Facebook this morning, and if it is legit, he’s still an asshole.
Come to Korea, Vitaly! Try that shit here. The PI should have amputated all his limbs before deporting him.
It’s what’s inside that counts.
I see one error in that meme.
Well, sorry to read that there had been navigational issues. If Waze is misleading you often, just stick to Google Maps. In some parts of the world (like La Rochelle, France), Maps will even offer you 3D renderings to navigate an area.
Kevin, how about: of my experience taking sand to the beach with my Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke. Are you sure you’ve told me a million times? Honestly, I’m not seeing it.
I’ve had the Waze app for years, but lately it’s become unreliable. Google it is!
Ah, I didn’t know that “pharmacie” is a French word. Now it makes sense. Most of the signage isn’t in English, so it’s nice to see something familiar, even if the spelling isn’t what I’m used to.
Does removing the comma before “but” fix the problem?
The meme error is “your” instead of “you’re.”
Yep, when I have a ways to go in the future, I won’t use Waze to get there.
Kevin, how about: of my experience taking sand to the beach with my Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke. Are you sure you’ve told me a million times? Honestly, I’m not seeing it.
You’ve fixed the problem without even knowing what the problem was. As we’ve discussed a million times before, hyphenate phrasal adjectives when they precede the noun they modify.
• of my taking-sand-to-the-beach experience with the Korean girlfriend, Eun Oke.
Before the noun “experience” is a phrasal adjective. You really ought to be able to see that by now. Your correction works because you shifted the position of “experience” so it is no longer preceded by the phrasal adjective. Now you know. Until the same fuck-up happens yet again, anyway.
Does removing the comma before “but” fix the problem?
Yes, but WHY? Because it’s a compound predicate, i.e., two actions done by one subject.
WRONG: She sat down, and farted.
RIGHT: She sat down and farted.
WRONG: …we took a stroll, but didn’t see anything
RIGHT: …we took a stroll but didn’t see anything
The meme error is “your” instead of “you’re.”
Yes.
Until you learn to recognize these same problems that keep cropping up again and again and again, you’ll have learned nothing. Knowledge isn’t knowledge if you fail to apply it when you need it.
Kevin, in my defense, “Sand to the beach” was the blog post title I was referencing, and it is unhyphenated. But yeah, I should do better in general. I just need to stop and think about it more than I do.