November 19, 2004
Good bye Vietnam
Tuan works in the hotel in Hoi An and has the most wonderful smile - a very slight young man, with the longest, most elegant fingernails. I asked him about them. He told me he had been growing them while...Read this update
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November 16, 2004
The orphans
Met someone in the hotel lobby who has been working as a volunteer in Vietnam for about three months, at an orphanage several hours drive from Hoi An. She is a friendly, cheeful New Zealander who is obviously devoted to...Read this update
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November 14, 2004
Very little bottoms too...
If you want to stop off by the side of the road, or in the market, or just about anywhere in fact, you will have to sit in a tiny plastic chair. The obvious is that people in Vietnam have...Read this update
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November 12, 2004
Overnight sleeper
I have lost all sense of days of the week, here in Vietnam. It was a Monday, late in the day, when we left Hanoi. The disadvantage of the sleeper, (there are three Express per day to Ho Chi Minh...Read this update
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Why the long finger nails?
While in Vietnam, I am intrigued to see so many men with beautifully manicured finger nails, in an elegant oval shape, some of the nails quite long and impractical! Presumably this is partly to show they do not have to...Read this update
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November 07, 2004
This is a difficult city to love
Arrived here on Thursday. Obviously absolutely bewildering at first. The taxi at the airport took a devious route back to the city, which involved bumping along dirt roads some of the time, and doubling back, doing U turns. This was...Read this update
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