by Allan Stratton | Jun 24, 2010 | Travels
Hanoi is celebrating its millennium as a capital city this year. There are festivities all over the country. This week was Hoi An’s turn which accounts for the floats among the lanterns. Enjoy the night lights, and the lanterns both festive and commercial. Next...
by Allan Stratton | Jun 21, 2010 | Travels
Like our own Niagara Falls, Vietnam has allowed a lot of crappy souvenir shops to glom onto some astonishing geological formations. The Marble Mountains are a case in point. They’re known as the source for Vietnam’s marble carvings, as they are literally...
by Allan Stratton | Jun 17, 2010 | Travels
Squid. They’re incredibly smart creatures, like pigs, so I always feel bad whenever I eat them. (Unlike cows, which are essentially walking carrots with a gas problem.) But sadly for squid, they don’t have the “Bunny Factor” and I’m a...
by Allan Stratton | Jun 14, 2010 | Travels
So… we finally made it to Nha Trang. Nha Trang is noted for its beautiful beaches, its diving, the picturesque fishing villages surrounding it, and as the birthplace of Thich Quang Guc (English spelling inaccurate due to Vietnamese alphabet), a Buddhist monk who...
by Allan Stratton | Jun 10, 2010 | Travels
Well… cast your mind back a couple of weeks — before the Cannes and Venice excitement — and wake up in Dalat, Vietnam’s Niagara Falls without the falls. We’ve just been to a Buddhist monastery — where fortunately we were able to...
