Moving to a new country, where you do not have the language is always a bureaucratic nightmare and achievements have to be measured in tiny victories each day.   I think  I have had my passport photocopied at least 8 times already.   First there was the guesthouse, then the estate agent, then the landlord for the lease, then the police to register our presence in town, then the notary ( 3 copies -God knows what he does with them all).  Then after we moved in, the landlord borrowed the passports again, for some unspecified reason.

I can understand in a Communist country that the government wants to keep track of the strangers, but, that said, we have no address!   We live down an alley, off another alley (both unnamed), off a boulevard which does have a name.  And our building has no number or other indication of its nature or occupants.  The best one can do if you want to direct a visitor, or taxi driver is to say that we live down the alley between The Little Hoi An Hotel and the Nova Villa Hotel.  Go to the end, turn right and we are the 2nd building on the right.