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more messing about on the Mekong

Posted on 12/04/2008 by clairelinney

Facebook Photos: click here Having had our fill of the big Vietnamese tourist excursions, Mika and I decided that there was no amount of money that would induce us to take a 30-person trip into the Mekong Delta. So we … Continue reading →

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the vietnamese prostitutes of Apocalypse Now

Posted on 12/04/2008 by clairelinney

We finally had to leave the idyllic beaches of Phu Quoc and head back to the big bad city of Saigon. Mary had to get moving into Cambodia so Mika and I met up with an English guy, Rob, and … Continue reading →

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the easy island life

Posted on 07/04/2008 by clairelinney

What is it about islands? It doesn’t matter which part of the world you are in but when you put any kind of civilisation on an island small enough to drive around in a day, with hot weather and palm … Continue reading →

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a city on two wheels

Posted on 02/04/2008 by clairelinney

Finally arrived in the far south of Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City, practically everyone still calls it Saigon and it is not the large, polluted, overwhelming Asian mayhem that everyone makes it out to be. Or maybe that’s me … Continue reading →

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easy riders and the crazy house

Posted on 01/04/2008 by clairelinney

Well having gone our separate ways James and I ended up arriving in Dalat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam on the same afternoon which was a good enough excuse for me to book us into a slightly nicer hotel … Continue reading →

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smiles and sunshine on the walk to Sin Chai

Posted on 28/03/2008 by clairelinney

Photos from the two hour walk that Jordan and I took to Sin Chai on our last day in Sapa…          

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the dangerous drinking games of the Black H’mong

Posted on 26/03/2008 by clairelinney

James and I spent the weekend at the Hanoi backpackers, mainly drinking, well if they will offer free kegs of Bia Hoi on the roof. And besides those Sunday afternoon beers were purely to settle the hangover from the previous … Continue reading →

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karsts and karoke from Hanoi to Halong Bay

Posted on 23/03/2008 by clairelinney

The overnight bus from Hoi An to Hanoi was something of a curiosity. From the front looking in you can see three narrow rows of wooden ended bunk beds, slightly slanted and very narrow and built for skinny people about … Continue reading →

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cooking classes, Cua Da Beach & custom-made clothes

Posted on 16/03/2008 by clairelinney

I am definitely falling victim to the infinite charms of Vietnam. This place is coming close to rivalling India for the sheer number of photogenic opportunities, whether it is farmers plowing rice paddies with huge horned buffaloes, the women in … Continue reading →

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where there’s a will there’s a Hue

Posted on 13/03/2008 by clairelinney

 I have no excuse for the blog title whatsoever, apart from the fact that it was too wonderfully cheesy to resist. James and I spent our day in Hue on a City Tour, all the obvious sights and sounds of … Continue reading →

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