HO CHI MINH: “LIFE IS BETTER WITH VESPA”

For the delight of all fans of the legendary Italian scooter, British youngsters Matt and Jessica, who describe themselves as “Vespa friends”, posted this delightful clip as a souvenir of the two years they lived in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), in Vietnam.

The video is a boy-meets-girl story: her moped breaks down, but luckily he is passing by on his Vespa, offers her a helmet, and off they go through the busy city streets. Originally, Ho Chi Minh was a small fishing village (Sài Gòn in Vietnamese), but over recent decades it has grown into a city where tradition and modernity live harmoniously side by side, the skyline dominated by the skyscrapers that loom over the districts of the old town.