Gold rush

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• Hanoi autumn

  hanoi autumn Autumn in Hanoi… I feel homesick!

• Gold rush

  I got home yesterday to find our landlord prowling around our back yard with a metal detector. According to family lore, his mom, who passed away some months back, had hidden some gold in the yard without telling anyone. I had visions of our whole garden full of holes. Luckily for our landlord, the buried [...]

• Bike footsies

  After this photo of a guy driving a motorbike with one foot while texting on a Hanoi highway went viral, police actually managed to track the 22-year-old driver down and fine him $576. Not only was the guy riding in a lane reserved for cars and trucks and not wearing a helmet, but the motorbike [...]

• Goodbye Halico Plant

  My friend Steve recently visited the old Halico factory - a liquor plant that the French built more than a century ago in Hanoi. He managed to get some wonderful photos of the old place, which is due to be torn down in the near future.

• A walk in the park

  At around 7p.m. the other night, my husband and I had just pulled into the small parking lot beside Saigon’s Le Van Tam Park when I spotted a group of youngish and middle-aged women sitting around, eating snacks and apparently enjoying the nice evening. We parked the car and a woman popped up and asked [...]