The one where I eat wild mushrooms

I've become convinced that the dogs in Asia are not only breeding with other dogs but with other animals too such as squirrels, cats, lions, rats...some of them just look like nothing I've ever seen before.
As if sleeper buses don't make me feel sick enough, I was treated with the gassiest man in Vietnam as my next-bed neighbour on route to Tam Loc, who seemed to have been eating something resembling cat food prior to boarding the 8 hour bus journey. But atleast I was reassured that the driver would stay awake - he had an alarm going off every 10 minutes, just in case...!! We were thrown off the bus at 4am in the village of Tam Loc and as you can imagine, I was more than happy to hear that the road leading down to my homestay was full of barking dogs - it's safe to say that I was a nervous wreck on arriving to check in.
For dinner in Tam Loc, after a busy day of exploring, I ordered the "local noodles", thinking that I was being a bit adventurous, but it turns out that their "local noodles" are actually spaghetti.... I was

then shocked to see that they served this with mushrooms that looked weirdly like those found on the floor of a English forest but of course, I ate and enjoyed nonetheless. (After seeing goat hung up by the roadside, anything else looked delicious to me!). My bus the following morning was, get ready for this....early. Having woken up in plenty of time for my 9am bus, the receptionist then came into my room at 8:20 telling me how the bus was waiting for me and that I must go...she packed me up with an omelette sandwich and basically threw me on the back of her motorbike to drop me down to the bus where she waved me off like a proud mother. I think my eyes were still closed, my tshirt on back to front and my flip flops on the wrong feet as the bus pulled away...