Baby’s coming

We’re expecting a baby. Soon! (and I know no blogger can resist waxing lyrical about their imminent family additions, so read on only if you want to part of this inevitable process).

Responsible Tourism Vietnam

Our company, Connections Vietnam, has been included in the newly released “The Guide to Responsible Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam”.

Our Cooking Class in Saigon

Cook is my company’s cooking class in Saigon, and by far our most popular pursuit by hungry, knowledge thirsty tourists. They love the opportunity provided to them to be able to visit someone’s house as well as have the cooking experience. Other classes offer the market shopping as do we, but we choose a local [...]

Making Connections Grow (Facebook style)

My business, the infant travel agency Connections, has just grown. We have relaunched the website, www.connectionsvietnam.com. I have tried to make it more Google friendly — added a Guide section including ‘Eat’, ‘Drink’, ‘Stay’ and ‘See’. Also added a links section. Added our new services as well, our Saigon packages. We are putting our four [...]

Learn

Students who have signed up to participate in our service ‘Learn’ presented a demo on Sunday afternoon in front of a panel of Vietnam residents, all foreigners. I wasn’t sure what to expect - and we started badly with heavy rain delaying the start. Location was hardly perfect and we had to wait for [...]

Connections Stash

As old friends of mine would have said, stash!

We’ve been on the streets of Saigon giving out some Connections fliers to tourists. My wife first did it with some of our young student volunteers. It was tough, she said. The common answer was ‘we’re leaving tomorrow’, if any answer was forthcoming at all. I tried [...]