Top Gear Season 12 Episode 7 Vietnam Special
Though Clarkson had previously ridden two-wheeled transport, without assistance, during a visit to Vietnam for his series Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld, broadcast on 12 January 1995, he was showing difficulty with his Vespa. He required the help of a nearby Australian tourist to start the scooter and showed difficulty in driving it at first. It is possible, however, that he forgot how in the past fourteen years.
Hammond was the only one whose head was small enough to fit inside a locally-bought helmet, while May resorted to using a colander for head protection. Clarkson used a metal bucket, replacing it with a proper helmet after several hours of “learning” to ride the Vespa.
The first leg of the journey was from Saigon to the mountain town of Đà Lạt, where they spent the night drinking Vietnamese beer (Bia Saigon Export), eating local cuisine made from snake meat (which Hammond refused) and taking shots of vodka mixed with the snake’s blood and bile, much to Hammond’s disgust.

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