Category: Vietnam
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Stuff the packing and return preparations. Two more days. We bus out South to Ninh Binh Province, a poor and relatively untouristed area. Around us towering stumps of mountains rise out of the rice paddies. The first day we hire pushbikes.The second day, motorbikes. This is a sharp, bleak, strange landscape. Crab like, the boat…
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A tourist again
Photos- more doors etc Back to Hanoi again for the final volunteer pilot seminar at the university. Halleluya, halleluya. The bouncing, English evangelical out of time melody emanating from Hanoi cathedral is a reminder of the emotional skittering and adjustments to be made on our return to England. The plastic stools for the Vietnamese congregation…
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Packing and unpacking
I enjoy packing and unpacking, seeing it as a chance to regroup, shed unwanted items. Peter has a different approach. I wonder if his cavernous suitcase which carries increasingly idiosyncratic miscellanea has been sorted at all during our travels. When I say ‘any dirty clothes? In a businesslike but friendly way he looks completely baffled,…
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Cat Ba Island
———- Forwarded message ———-From: deidre macfarlane <deidremac@googlemail.com>Date: Dec 15, 2008 3:23 PMSubject: Cat Ba IslandTo: blog deidremac.email@blogger.com Cat Ba Island Noisy, everbusy Hanoi. Our hotel balcony above the labyrinthine alleyways offers seclusion but Peter wants more peace, the countryside, mountains. Catba island is a three hour bus and boat-ride away. At sunset we row out…
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A Passing Note
There is a facility for comments on this blog which no person, known or unknown to me, has used. I like to think that this is not an indication that it remains largely unread. General comments- however brief/questions/ expressions of interest in volunteering are welcome -they can of course be anonymous. Click on ‘my complete…
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Leave taking -again
A four berth night sleeper from Sapa to Hanoi. What glamour and excitement. 12 pounds and a bottle of water is included. There are pros and cons to arriving in a capital city at 5.a.m. No hotels are open.We sit quietly and watch the sun rise over Hoan Kiem lake as hundreds of early morning…
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A social whirl
Photos Children playing in Sin Chai village School volunteers may teach in Sapa mountains Woman in traditional clothes of the flower minority at Bak Ca Market We escaped being run over by the motorbikes in Hanoi but have not escaped being run over by a masseur here in Sapa. For the grand finale of the…
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Back to Sapa -volunteer possibilities
Photos View from hotel Sin Chau village Sin Chau family house Song and her baby Hotel English class Back to Sapa to check out our teaching permission papers which were not forthcoming in Banho. Our previous accomodation is full. We check into a £3.75 a night including breakfast hotel which has beautiful views of the…