Vietnam photos : Top Twenty

I am not claiming to be a photographer here, just posting a collection of twenty of my favourite pictures from Vietnam. Please enjoy them, and tell me which is your favourite!

Reunited

Part two of Chi’s Story, finally reunited with her brother in France.

Chi’s story

When my wife’s brother was born, she was only nine years old. During the birth, her mother had some complications, eventually leading to her inability to take care of the boy sufficiently. Now, I tell the family story as we prepare to meet Dai in France after he was adopted 15 years ago.

An everyday journey

Here I am reposting something from over a year ago. This piece will be published in an upcoming book called ‘To Vietnam with Love’, from the same people as ‘To Asia With Love‘, due out ‘early summer’ 2008. I am not quite sure of the final edited version that will go to print, but [...]

Helmet Style

With the introduction of the helmet law, what I am about to show you was inevitably going to happen. Helmet fashion gone mad. Not happy with wearing a hat under the helmet, now we have to strap a good old sun visor around it, or a ‘pretty’ bonnet. Here they are, flapping in [...]

New Years Day

Yesterday was spent in county Cu Chi, and it turns out that Grandma lives just a few kms down the road from the main tunnels site. The family (this is Chi’s mum’s side) have a good sized plot of land. Here you can see Grandma’s newly built house and one of Chi’s uncles lives in [...]

The day before NYE

It’s that time of year again, and the buzz is palpable. Today, the shops are alive, the streets are bustling with shoppers. Today is the street traders bonanza, I noticed….(see previous post + comments).
Finally, I had a morning totally dedicated to driving around the city, researching for three or four upcoming blog posts, and snapping [...]

Queuing

London, England.

People queue. British people are famous for queuing. We queue just to get into another queue. We queue to ask about where we should queue. We separate queuing people with ropes and guide them with signs. We spilt queues when they get too big and start them again on somewhere else. We zig-zag queues [...]

Starting a Ltd Co in Vietnam: How to.

It all began with some wishy-washy ideas about 46.55 full moons ago. Wistfully gazing at one such beaming orb, watching the hair grow on the back of my hand, the possibilities were bouncing off the walls of my cranium. But how to turn ideas into a reality? Well, thankfully the only restriction known to any [...]

Saigon Entertainment: Cafés, bars and nightclubs.

Written as a sample for someone, I will put it here for your enjoyment:
It may be surprising to arrive in this Asian metropolis to find a bevy of chic cafes and restaurants, serving up cuisine from all corners of the earth. The growth of the scene has been spurred by the burgeoning number of tourists [...]