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Life on the water

Posted in Vietnam, ~Meg, tagged , on August 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I love markets.  I mean, I really love markets.  I could wander around the local markets for hours, just soaking it all in.  On the second or third day of this trip, way back in October, we wandered into the central market in Lima.  As with most markets we’ve visited since, we saw everything from [...]

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A different kind of touristy

Posted in Vietnam, tagged , on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Honeymoon Capital of Vietnam
Swiss Mountain Town
The City of Eternal Spring
Of all the monikers coined for the city of Dalat, Vietnam, it was the last one that really caught our attention–we’ve been roasting in the Southeast Asian heat since early May, so the opportunity to visit an area that promised a respite from the sauna [...]

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Ten Things: Vietnam

Posted in Vietnam, tagged , on July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Vietnam, in ten long-winded observations.
Love: The People
We may have mentioned (oh, once or a hundred times) that before we came to Vietnam, we had read and heard accounts of the Vietnamese people being extremely aggressive.  To the point of being unkind.  I would usually write off a few bad accounts–chalk it up to that whole [...]

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Great times, New Friends, and Catching Up

Posted in Vietnam, tagged , on July 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

When Megan last left you, we had been on our Halong Bay cruise and had left Hanoi for a little town called Hue.  So much has happened since, and we’ve been having so much fun with our new friends Dave and Tina and Mikael and Maiken that posting just hasn’t been our first priority.
We are [...]

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Madness in Hanoi

Posted in Vietnam, tagged , on July 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

A quick glimpse of our first day in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Honestly, I was a bit nervous coming to Vietnam.  Travelers we’ve met over the past 8.5 months and everything we’ve read on blogs and message boards tends to elicit the same varied respnoses.  People either love it or hate it.  The people who claim the latter [...]

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