Tag: Hanoi

  • You Should Definitely Move to Vietnam With Your Baby

    You Should Definitely Move to Vietnam With Your Baby

    I’m going to preface this by noting and underlining the fact that I am an unreliable narrator. I’m also a barefaced liar (intermittently) who is concurrently preparing a post arguing the exact opposite thesis. Frankly, I’m not even sure which one I believe the most. It changes from minute to minute, depending on how much…

  • Tiny Notes From Hanoi: Everything is Amazing When You Leave Your Phone at Home

    Tiny Notes From Hanoi: Everything is Amazing When You Leave Your Phone at Home

      Yesterday I left my phone in the hotel room when I went out with Thwack strapped to my front. We were just popping out for a moment to hunt and gather some sort of lunch for me before I had to take a cranky, snoozy baby back to the room for a midday nap.…

  • Tiny Notes From Hanoi: A Home, a Banh Mi and Thou

    Tiny Notes From Hanoi: A Home, a Banh Mi and Thou

    Welcome to Day 2 in my return to blogging, miniature stylee. Today we went and visited our new house. It isn’t ours yet- there is a lovely Danish family still living in it- but we got to have a second look around it for the first time since we paid four months’ rent up front…

  • Tiny Notes From Hanoi: It’s Kinda Different With a Kid

    Tiny Notes From Hanoi: It’s Kinda Different With a Kid

    Welcome to this exciting new series of (hopefully) near daily updates on our very recent move to Hanoi (like, last Friday)! Between living in a compact little hotel room in an area without walkable sidewalks (but with a fine cacophany of scooters roaring at all hours) and having Thwack full time and having two separate…