Month: August 2025

On the 13th we did nothing all day except languish in bed while Ananda’s beautiful wife and lovely mother kept us fed and watered with delicious dal bhat (Nepalese national … Read more

We didn’t do anything on the 11th, while waiting for Jennifer’s feet to improve, although I did go for fairly long walk past the Kali temple in Tokha along a … Read more

Jennifer’s feet are in bad nick. She got some innocuous-looking blisters which burst and she got some infection in the wounds. Its now practically impossible for her to walk. So … Read more

On 5th August we got a taxi to Ho Chi Minh International Airport, which is adjacent to the domestic airport, and got the first leg (Bangkok) of the flight to … Read more

A correction! Today’s guide on the trip to the Mekong Delta, Ungh, was suitably impressed when told that us old gits had crawled the entire 100 metres of the tourist … Read more

The flight from Hue to Ho Chi Minh City on 1st August was uneventful, and it was nice to hear the song “The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh” played on … Read more

The hotel organised a tour of Hue which, despite a healthy contempt of tour groups, we joined and really enjoyed it. The tour guide, a very attractive and personable young … Read more