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Fri, 1 Sep 2006 | By taroso | Views [837] | Comments [2]
Sleep and Time I'm used to spending a week in a place if I don't feel like moving - inertia is my major driving force. Phase two of my travels consists of two months of package tours - the first a Gecko's from Saigon to Beijing; the second an ... Read more >
Tags: General
Tue, 29 Aug 2006 | By katie_and_eoin | Views [1069]
"Interesting" is what everyone seems to say about Cambodia. Yes, very interesting, but by this morning all I was interestd in was leaving the place. Actually, that is quite harsh, we had a good time but we'd seen enough. As we flew in, the ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 29 Aug 2006 | By katie_and_eoin | Views [819]
"Interesting" is what everyone seems to say about Cambodia. Yes, very interesting, but by this morning all I was interested in was leaving the place. Actually, that is quite harsh, we had a good time but we'd seen enough. As we flew in, the ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [861]
Kallisti "9", said Tom - an assessment of one of the girls on our trip. No holier-than-thou-ness, please: male or female you probably rate people too. "9.5", replied I, "until she spoke". I have a low irritation ... Read more >
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Thu, 24 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [677]
Those of you who enjoy the work of Jeremy Clarkson may be glad to know that I picked up The World According to Clarkson, a collection of his Sunday Times columns, a few days ago. Those of you who dislike Jeremy Clarkson will be glad to know that it ... Read more >
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Wed, 23 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [918] | Comments [2]
You see and hear English words that are (practically?) unused in Australia - anyone know what a "suzerainty" is without looking it up, for instance? "Confluence" (a joining, specifically of rivers) crops up quite frequently - not ... Read more >
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Tue, 22 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [797]
When Dalat, in Vietnam's Central Highlands, is viewed from a distance,
it gives a very Central European impression. Many of the larger
buildings are from French colonial days. The lake is a manufactured one; the
hills in the background natural ... Read more >
Tags: General
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [1477]
In the minibus coming back from the River Kwae were A. and R., two
Brisbanites. "I thought you were foreign so I was speaking to you
really slowly", said A., on discovering I was also Australian - the peril of
being half-Japanese, ... Read more >
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Tue, 15 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [793]
I think the last time I'd been to a zoo may have been Ange and Kieren's
wedding reception; the only visible animals small and tasty. Saigon's
Historical Museum was closed on Mondays, however, and since the zoo was
adjacent it seemed a waste of a ... Read more >
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Sun, 13 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [1159]
History is fungible Every War Museum I've been to has presented its own version of events; I suppose that the history presented by the Australian War Memorial is similarly individual, but since it presents a history aligned with what we learned ... Read more >
Tags: General
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 | By realeyes | Photo Gallery
Saigon, Nha Trang, Hanoi
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Tue, 1 Aug 2006 | By realeyes | Views [2587]
Koreans work a brutal amount of hours in a week, and a brutal amount of days in a year, and unfortunately that means that so do I. On my blink-and-it's-gone vacation time in July, I jetted off to Viet Nam with my co-worker-friend Shawna looking ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | By leelefever | Views [930] | Comments [1]
Anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes on the streets of SE Asia knows the street hawkers – the people selling goods and services on the street. The most dominant and tenacious of the hawkers are the drivers- people offering rides on their tuk-... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 | By leelefever | Views [639]
We are suckers for cool places in the mountains. Da Lat, Vietnam lured us with temperatures in the 60's and the promise of experiencing Vietnam's vacation and honeymoon capital. What we found was an intersting look at Vietnamese vacation ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2008]
I woke up with itching, burning lips and the skin under my lip, going half-way down to my chin was red, flaky and itchy. The skin on the inside of my mouth approaching my gums also had sores on it. The doctor diagnosed this as a fungal infection probably ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, hospitals & health, true claim stories
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