Full Circle
Day 84: Saigon

That's not all scooters are used for in Saigon. On returning from a meal on Dong Khoi Street (a.k.a. the Rue Catenat where the hero of Graham Greene's The Quiet American lived) we are propositioned by motorized prostitutes who cruise along beside us on 50 cc mopeds offering 'massage' or 'boom-boom'. They won't accept 'no sex please - we're British' as an answer and, getting no satisfaction, one of them heaves her bike up onto the kerb and pursues us along the pavement.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Full Circle
- Day: 84
- Country/sea: Vietnam
- Place: Saigon
- Book page no: 124
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