Recent Posts Tagged With 'vietnam'

• Last three photos from Vietnam

  Posted on Saturday January 31st, 2009 at 21:23 in Culture, Photography, vietnam, hanoi, halong bay

  Jimmy and Mme on Halong Bay Hanoi So this is what traffic looks like when it’s slow, meaning nowhere near rush hour. View from our hotel in the old .25...

• Back in BKK, resolutions and finally my trip home from Hanoi.

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 06:38 in Culture, Photography, vietnam, hanoi, lao

  Well I�??m back … But I think that most people knew that. Been back since last Wednesday night actually, but have had house guests, cleaning and things like that keeping me busy. Anyway, that�??s probably not all that interesting. I just pi...

• Halong Bay

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 22:03 in Photography, vietnam, halong bay

  Before and during our trip to Hanoi, it seemed that everyone wanted to know if we were going to Halong Bay. We had originally planned not to because: we only had five days and didn�??t want to feel rushed, leaving cities makes us nervous and we had...

• Individuality

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 21:51 in politics, Culture, vietnam, hanoi

  In Thailand the current King is on every banknote, in India it�??s Ghandi, in Vietnam it�??s H�? Chí Minh and in the USA each bill is a different dead president. I point this out, because it highlights a really interesting point. In the states...

• More stuff for sale

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 10:07 in Culture, Photography, vietnam, hanoi

  Ok, so we’re already established that Christmas comes from Hanoi … I think knock-off shoes and bike helmets just may also. A lot of these knock-off items are sold in BKK too, but I think that they generally comes from places like China an...