Any one still on site?

[CaledonianGonzo]

You can get cipro on prescription in the UK, but it's available over the counter in pharmacies in SE Asia.

[Zacko]

8 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I've just spoken to my wife and she confirms that it very possibly that. I say that because she did take a note of what the tablet was and looked it up when we got back (this was in 2019) and confirms that it was an antibiotic of some sort. Oh, and she tells me that I was given and took 2 tablets not one.

Thanks for pointing that out tom me, as if I ever go to the Far East again (Please God, make that a thing) I will try to get a hold of some.*

I first went to Vietnam with a couple of mates (British Airways Business Class there and back for £120! It pays to know somebody within BA. Thanks H if you are reading this). I went to a chemist and got a hold of some Valium. Three days later my mates asked me to stop taking them. I asked why, and they told me that it was because I had become a 'mong'. 

What a place Vietnam is. Made those long bus journeys feel like floating on a cloud haha. 

[Avalon_Fields]

55 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

I am very anti-violence and guns and things etc. However, I was given the chance to fire off a few rounds from an AK47, so I did. *  

* - I also picked up the shells from the floor to keep as a souvenir. Then I got caught with them at the airport on the way to Singapore. The Vietnamese security were, quite rightly, shaking their heads at my unbelievable stupidity. So they confiscated them. Then I got on the plane and there in front of me (on the back of the seat in front of me) was a warning which included a bullet with a red 'NO' arrow through it!

That’s funny, I have to say I’m as stupid as you. Years ago - before 9/11 - I bought an arrow from a Native American trading post. We got to San Francisco airport and it was in my hand luggage. The US border security were not at all impressed and I was given a good going over. Arrow broken up and discarded the condition for me to be allowed to board the plane.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, Zacko said:

What a place Vietnam is. Made those long bus journeys feel like floating on a cloud haha. 

I get where you are coming from. A wise move. 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

52 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

That’s funny, I have to say I’m as stupid as you. Years ago - before 9/11 - I bought an arrow from a Native American trading post. We got to San Francisco airport and it was in my hand luggage. The US border security were not at all impressed and I was given a good going over. Arrow broken up and discarded the condition for me to be allowed to board the plane.

I'm afraid that I can beat that. This was also before 9/11, when I went to San Marino (with only hand luggage). While there I noticed a place selling very real looking hand grenade cigarette lighters. So, I bought two of these;

 

and one of that looked like this;

 

I really don't know what I was thinking, but thought that on the way home, if stopped by airport security, I would just take another normal lighter out of my pocket. One like this;

 

So, I got to the airport, got stopped by two police (they looked like military police) officers, who took the three 'grenades' out of my bag. I immediately kicked in with my plan and showed them the normal lighter, and pointed towards the 'grenades' that they were holding. I then made a gesture to show them how the grenade lighters worked, and they allowed me to pull the pin out of one and click it, and it lighted up with a flame - as expected . And then guess what happened? They shrugged their shoulders, put the 3 'naughty' lighters back into my bag, and let me get on the plane. On reflection, even though it was before 9/11, it was an insane thing for them to have done.

And there's another related story to those lighters. Years later my speed dealer came to my house and saw one of the lighters on a shelf (I had given the other two away). He questioned whether it was real or not. I said it wasn't, and showed him that it was a functioning lighter. he asked if he could borrow it to show a friend and I, stupidly again, said 'Yes, OK'. So he took it away. The next thing I know is that a mutual friend phoned me informing me that I was a barmy bastard, and that the dealer had used it to threaten somebody who owed him money. Then about a week after that I got a message to say that the dealer had died of a heart attack, which I was able to verify as being true. So, i never got the grenade lighter back and don't know where it got to / is now.

 

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Yoghurt on a Stick

[parsonjack]

14 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Maybe ciprofloxacin?

Almost certainly.

When I had gastro in Nha Trang a Vietnamese/French doctor asked my wife what I'd eaten...she told him we'd had Elephant Fish on the delta. He recoiled in horror saying 'Elephant flesh!?' 'No, no' says my wife...'fish...poisson!' Cue very relieved doctor who then jabs me in the arse with something and hands over a bottle of cipro...I was fine by the morning 👍