{"id":1047,"date":"2016-11-22T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/tai-chi-from-the-east-meets-beech-from-the-west\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:03:00","slug":"tai-chi-from-the-east-meets-beech-from-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/tai-chi-from-the-east-meets-beech-from-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi from the East meets beech from the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morning started with Tai Chi on deck at around 7-45am<\/p>\n

Tai Chi is a very calm and controlled balance. Our Tai Chi Master who looks incredibly like our chef who takes us through a morning workout in slow motion.<\/p>\n

Then onto the tenders to visit Tito Island and beech.<\/p>\n

We are taken to an island where H\u00e2 pays government representatives to allow us to use the beech and visit the island. <\/p>\n

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\nThe beech is very small, around 200 metres in length and we are given an hour to relax at 9-30am before returning for brunch. <\/p>\n

Who has it right? The Vietnamese who provide a controlled environment that is unspoilt and a little contrived which all seems surreal or us, the Westerners, who over commercialise, over develop and would prefer freedoms to climb the mountains, rest in a private Bay, populate with nudist and topless bikini clad individuals and be the first to complain when the landscape is destroyed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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