Tag Archives: Hoi An

Land of lanterns 0

My skills in translating Vietnamese to English are, I’m afraid, utterly non-existent. I haven’t the slightest idea what any of the noises mean, and after two and a half weeks here my Vietnamese vocabulary, somewhat embarrassingly, only stretches as far as being able to gain a waitresses attention: “Em Oi!” not being the most difficult [...]

Heading out to the highway 0

There is a certain television show made by the BBC, based very loosely on cars, and featuring a massively outspoken Journalist, a vertically-challenged Brummie with an unsavoury fetish for shopping at Morrisons, and a man who says the word “cock” a lot. You may have seen the show before, and if so, may be aware [...]