I've been on a Vietnam novel kick for the past couple weeks. And when I read about Vietnam, I can't help but think back to my trip there 20 years ago. It was one of the highlights of my then-20 year life (and still is, although I'm not 20 anymore).When I arrived in Hue in … [Read more...]
The legend of Thomas Glover
When I came across some slides labeled Thomas Glover's house, I wondered if my mom and her friends had met another old Japan hand in Nagasaki and were invited over for tea or something.So I googled Thomas Glover and learned he was a Scottish trader straight out of a James … [Read more...]
Book of the week–In a Strange Room
In this state travel isn't celebration but a kind of mourning, a way of dissipating yourself. He moves around from one place to another, not driven by curiosity but by the bored anguish of staying still.So writes Damon Galgut in In a Strange Room (Europa Editions), a 2010 … [Read more...]
Magasins Reunis in Hanoi
When Ali Swanson guest blogged yesterday, she sent me a couple of images of the old Magasins Reunis building in Hanoi. For the life of me, I couldn't successfully embed the link in the text.So here's one of those images.It was quite a beauty even in black and white … [Read more...]
Guest blog post about HaNoi, 1992
I'm so excited to share with you this guest blog post from the phenomenal Ali Swanson--world traveler, health-care provider extraordinaire, and dear friend. Here she writes about when she lived in Vietnam, long before the US and Vietnam normalized relations. Here's Ali:During … [Read more...]
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