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Vietnam – Day 4
Visited mum’s colleagues & chatted with a Viet Cong war heroine. Went to Ben Thanh market to buy lacquer ware and Seasonal fruits. The fruit-seller travels 2 hours from the Mekong Delta every morning! She gave us some soft tapioca with coconut cream. Nicer than the tapioca they gave me in the Cuchi tunnels. Then…
Do you have a Rap Top?
(Written 5.15pm, Tokyo time.) We touched down in Tokyo’s Narita airport for a brief transit. We were led through another security scan before we could get back onto the plane. Being bleary-eyed (it was past midnight, LA time, and about 2+am Austin time), I was about to place my bag on the conveyor belt until…
Food, fares and fun
I’m back from Kuala Lumpur after a 6 hour coach ride, through the 2nd Link. I heard that some friends in another coach had their chewing gum confiscated! Overall we had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the food but was careful not to overeat, and looked at a lot of shops, but as usual…
The closest I ever got to Iraq
This photo was taken during a boat ride up the Bosphorus River last June. The weather was lovely. We weren’t permitted to sail up any further but I was told that this river mouth led to the Black Sea. Still, it is several hundred miles away from the frontlines.
Vicki goes back to school*
Woke up late. Mum made eggs for breakfast. We packed up Vicki’s bags and had lunch at Serai, a Thai-Asian restaurant (Vicki’s last char kway teow and chicken rice for a long time to come). Yan, the dutiful niece from Ipoh who’s been running the joint while the owners are under SARS quarantine back in…
Off to Shanghai
Well folks, I’m leaving at dawn for Shanghai, China. The weather looks fine. I hear it’s tolerably cool and very windy with some rain, which means it will be very much like Bristol. I didn’t have time to complete all my applications today so I will send the remaining documents when I get back in…