Just back from Afternoon Tea on the 12th floor. We’ve now switched hotels and districts in Ho Chi Minh City. I’m glad to be in Downtown now. It’s busier here, but also more interesting than in the quieter Thao Dien neighborhood.

From one of the windows in our new room on the seventh floor of the extraordinary Silverland Hotel, which from the inside looks like a futuristic, luxurious spaceship, we can see the sprawling Bến Thành Market, one of Saigon’s most famous bazaars.

Lest I forget: we ate a delicious lunch at a cool restaurant called Propaganda, which one of the reception staff recommended to us. Kudos for that.