visiting Vietnam
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A Tale of Many Snacks: Da Nang, Vietnam
‘Don’t stay long in Da Nang,’ they said. ‘There’s only a bridge there,’ they said. ‘It’s half an hour from Hoi An,’ we said. ‘By Asian standards that’s about fourteen seconds. We are going to Da Nang.’ There’s also a train line that runs from Da Nang to Hue, our next stop, and everyone we Continue reading
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In Which I Am Going Home to a Foreign Country
This morning I worked out that if I did one blog per week about each place in South East Asia that I haven’t talked about yet, I would have told you about everything in… 13 weeks. That’s longer than the time I’ve spent in South East Asia. If I do two a week and devote Continue reading
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South East Asia Day 79: Missing the UK… (Or Not)
If my maths is right (and it probably isn’t), today marks three quarters of this trip. In honour of this significant landmark, here is a list I’ve been compiling of what I miss about home… and what I could happily never see again. Things I don’t miss about the UK Drizzle Wearing three layers to Continue reading
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The Cu Chi Tunnels & Ruinification Palace, Ho Chi Minh City
One of the best things about a city as sprawling as Ho Chi Minh City, and a country as vast as Vietnam, is that you can swing from ‘adventure tour’ to ‘relaxed museum visit’ in the blink of an eye. Case in point: Cu Chi and the Ruinification Palace. The Cu Chi Tunnels SOME HISTORY: Continue reading
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