Can I tell you about our early days in Hanoi? Back in October? So […]
Earlier this week, I found out that this particular blog of mine had somehow made it […]
Aside from being commissioned to write ridiculously detailed 20,000 word guides for relocating to Chinese cities […]
Last week, we took an overnight train to Sapa, the hill tribe tourist hub in […]
In the summer of 2006, I decided to take the train from Istanbul to Damascus, […]
I didn’t always live in Shanghai. Or Hanoi. Although this blog places my online identity firmly […]
I’m surprisingly comfortable with having no clue what’s going on around me. I’ve spent most of […]
The French had a word for those long grim grey drizzly damp Hanoi winters. Le crachin, […]
This one has been worming its way through my head for about a week […]
Last week, I adamantly insisted that Vietnam- or, more specifically, Hanoi- was the place to be […]
I’m going to preface this by noting and underlining the fact that I am an unreliable […]
We have a house, people. A whole house to ourselves, partway down a narrow scooter-wide lane, […]