Open House

One of the things I’ve been wondering about is why scenes like this
draw me so much, make me grab for my camera.  There’s nothing intrinsically interesting in this transaction, in an herb shop in Hanoi’s old quarter, or especially different from a transaction witnessed in a mall or on a busy shopping street at home [...]

Slow town, take it easy

I don’t know if it was more so in Hoi An, but because it is smaller than many of the other places we’ve been lately the scenes of delightful lassitude — and, in contrast, the backbreaking labor — really stood out.  Here’s a few pics from around town (click to enlarge)..

 
 

Baywatch Hoi An

At Cau Doc beach, about 4 kilometers outside of Hoi An, it wasnt long after we settled into the warm sand that we met Mimi.  And Tina (pictured here).  And Lulu, and Lina, and a few others whose names we’ve now forgotten.  They are a wonderfully charming lot, with similar tales of woe, who have perfectly [...]

On the Mekong

Well, Vietnam’s Internet is no faster, at least so far as we’ve found, than Cambodia’s. Here’s a few notes taken on the Mekong, during a speedboat/ferry ride we shared with an Scottish expert in unexploded bombs and an American English teacher working for the Cambodia War Crimes Tribunal in Phnom Penh — that’s more evidence [...]