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DANANG, VIETNAM – I’ve been seeing red this past week.
No, I’m not angry.
What I mean is I’ve been seeing red flags all over.
They’re not the figurative ‘red flags’ you see mentally when something seems amiss.
No, I’m talking about literal red flags, as in the national flag of Vietnam. The simple bright red banner with a brilliant yellow five-pointed star in the center.
HANOI, VIETNAM – Our Christmas and New Year’s celebrations were certainly a bit different this year. We don’t usually do much, sometimes go to a movie, usually fix ourselves a nice dinner, but we’re not big gift-givers.
We both hate that in the U.S. the “Christmas season” seems to start even before summer ends. Continue reading “Christmas and New Year’s in Hanoi”