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…
The night air was thick and warm as the streets of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City pulsated with energy. I slipped into a local supermarket…
Her room is shaped like a triangle. The ceiling drops down into a low window that makes up the wall and lets only a trace…
He moves me across to the middle of the bed from above with his strong hand between my shoulder blades. My arms flop over my…
“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…
“Today I’m going to talk a lot about the US Army,” says the guide in his thick Vietnamese accent, “I want you to remember that…
We were at the end of our dubious four-and-a-half month voluntourist teaching placements in Northern Vietnam. We had by now overcome the shock of the…
It’s a tired old cliché that you learn more about yourself when you go travelling overseas. And without a doubt, I learned a great deal about…
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…
Price: About $8 a night, no matter the size of your dorm. Get There: The original is at 48 Ngo Huyen St, Hoan Kiem; the…
