The reactions are diverse when you tell someone you’ve decapitated a live chicken in Vietnam: I’ve been laughed at for my inept bravery, labelled as…
I land in Hanoi the second week of February. Not winter, not summer, and not comparable to any other middle season in the rest of…
“Tomorrow,” the bus driver said sheepishly, sympathetically. I’d asked for directions to the ferry terminal. “But the saleswoman at the bus station said I’d reach…
At time of writing, I am staying in a traditional French colonial home located at the heart of historical Da Lat old town in the…
Like many other adolescent Aussies, I too can claim I’ve been backpacking around Asia. With a couple of clothes in my rucksack, my two good…
