Three British tourists found dead near Vietnam waterfall

Borboletta said:
Trust me Saigon is a banging and vibrant city now, it is amazing how it's changed in just four years since I was last there. I will send you some photos when I get some time, the Tet festival is just magical. One very significant change is you can now go there without a visa for up to 15 days, that only happened last year.
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I'd love to go there to visit but I'm between a rock and a hard spot where traveling to South East Asia is concerned.

If we have the money to travel there. Then we're going to go to her families farm out in the province where my every move will be monitored and which is about as exciting as my uncles hog and corn farm in Indiana. We have had several discussions that have degenerated to fights about her attitude when we travel there and I've simply just decided that as long as she insists that any travel there would be spend only at her families farm then I simply will not go any more. She won't back down either. She absolutely insists that if we go there that she should be able to dominate and dictate my every move. So....don't look like I"ll be going back to south east Asia anytime soon.
 
Watermark is The Enemy said:
Personal experience blinds people to the reality of matters.

BTW, only British could be stupid enough to attempt to climb up a slippery waterfall.
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In other words you don't know any Asians (odd considering you're a weaboo), have never been to Asia, don't really know that much about Asia but this was a good lead in to take a cheap shot at Tom and the Brits?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'd love to go there to visit but I'm between a rock and a hard spot where traveling to South East Asia is concerned.

If we have the money to travel there. Then we're going to go to her families farm out in the province where my every move will be monitored and which is about as exciting as my uncles hog and corn farm in Indiana. We have had several discussions that have degenerated to fights about her attitude when we travel there and I've simply just decided that as long as she insists that any travel there would be spend only at her families farm then I simply will not go any more. She won't back down either. She absolutely insists that if we go there that she should be able to dominate and dictate my every move. So....don't look like I"ll be going back to south east Asia anytime soon.
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My daughter in law can be a bit like that as well, she hates it when I tell her she is being a control freak. Don't get me wrong though, she is nowhere near as bad as that.
 
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Borboletta said:
My daughter in law can be a bit like that as well, she hates it when I tell her she is being a control freak. Don't get me wrong though, she is nowhere near as bad as that.
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To be fair, we don't travel there that often. I get why she wants to spend that time with her family. What I don't get was her insisting that I stay there with nothing to do. She would run off with her sisters or hang at the house gossiping in Tagalog. Her brothers were to busy with work that left a gaggle of her adorable nieces who were all sweethearts but what teenager wants to hang around with a middle aged man? So that left me sitting around with nothing to do.

I mean I spent a shit load of money to go there and I wanted to go to the beach, Manila, Corrigedor, Bataan, etc, and the only way she would agree to that is if we took her whole bloody family along. Hell she wouldn't even let me go to the local pub by myself without throwing a fit. I was going to take a bus to a beach resort. We had planned to go there by ourselves for two day getaway. She invited her entire family. We drove there and back in one day. I wanted to get a room for a couple of days at a nearby resort for a few days and take a bus back. She had a public meltdown in front of her family.

So subsequently I told I wouldn't go back unless I had the freedom of movement I enjoy at home. Her answer was "hell no.".

Ultimately her being a control freak boils down to two things. #1. She's afraid another Filipina would attempt to seduce me if she's not there to watch me and #2. She is obsessively worried about my safety while we are there. She claims I don't know the Phils well enough to which I counter that I've traveled far, far, far more broadly than she has and I'm vastly more street wise and that in my three trips there before I met here I never had a problem not to mention the have a lower violent crime rate than the U.S. Does. Her answer to such logic is to have an emotional meltdown.

The infuriating thing is if we went to Poenix or Vancover or Mexico City she wouldn't give a shit.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
To be fair, we don't travel there that often. I get why she wants to spend that time with her family. What I don't get was her insisting that I stay there with nothing to do. She would run off with her sisters or hang at the house gossiping in Tagalog. Her brothers were to busy with work that left a gaggle of her adorable nieces who were all sweethearts but what teenager wants to hang around with a middle aged man? So that left me sitting around with nothing to do.

I mean I spent a shit load of money to go there and I wanted to go to the beach, Manila, Corrigedor, Bataan, etc, and the only way she would agree to that is if we took her whole bloody family along. Hell she wouldn't even let me go to the local pub by myself without throwing a fit. I was going to take a bus to a beach resort. We had planned to go there by ourselves for two day getaway. She invited her entire family. We drove there and back in one day. I wanted to get a room for a couple of days at a nearby resort for a few days and take a bus back. She had a public meltdown in front of her family.

So subsequently I told I wouldn't go back unless I had the freedom of movement I enjoy at home. Her answer was "hell no.".
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That is just insane, my daughter in law's family are pretty cool to be honest. I love her father who is into Santana, Jackson Browne and all that good stuff. I did have a similar thing where the DIL decided we were all going to Vung Tau but then said for only one night because her mother had to go back to work. Anyway I said screw that and stayed on for another couple of days and got the bus back with my son's Spanish friend David who has been travelling around the world for the past year. In fact he is headed to the Phillipines next, really cool guy.
 
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