Every Full Moon in Hoi An is celebrated on the 14th day of the lunar month and is known as Legendary Night. The town switches off the street lights. It’s then bedecked with candles, burning of paper money offerings, mini temples set out outside each home and shopn and lanterns making it even more atmospheric. The downside to this though is that potholes, rats and sewers are harder to spot…. In this magical atmosphere, Ant performed magic as he got Gill into a flat bottomed rowing boat out into mid river to release three candle lantern upon the waters. The river was full of these floating lanterns placed by locals and tourists alike to herald the new beginning that comes with each full moon. The elderly lady rowed us for half an hour and when Gill disembarked her relief was as if she had survived the Titanic! We are thinking of starting this on the Thames, but we need to check - one local even asked us if we could see the moon from our country….
