HANOI, VIETNAM – We recently spent a day at the Japanese Culture Exchange Festival, held March 23-26 near Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi.
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Japanese Culture in Hanoi (watch the video)
Everything we own in just one bag? Yeah, right…
HANOI, VIETNAM – When Melanie and I first started planning to sell everything and travel the world, we thought we would each take just one carry-on suitcase so we’d never have to worry about lost luggage or hauling around too much stuff.
We read everything we could find about traveling light, and what you really need to bring when you travel. Continue reading “Everything we own in just one bag? Yeah, right…”
Bangkok for the weekend? Yeah, that just happened…
HANOI, VIETNAM – Brrr, it’s chilly here in Hanoi today. Especially after spending the last three days in Bangkok, where it was sunny and 80-plus degrees (27 degrees Celsius) and we could bring our shorts and sunscreen out of hiding for a change.
Now it’s back to wearing silk long underwear and a sweater, with the hope that it might get up to 60 by the afternoon.
Three days is not nearly enough time to explore anyplace the way Melanie and I like to, but we needed to leave Vietnam because our tourist visas were about to expire.
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We’ve spent ‘millions’ during our first month in Vietnam
HANOI, VIETNAM – Let me first state that our lifestyle in Hanoi is anything but lavish, and I’ll go into more detail about those “millions” in just a minute.
We’re currently living in a one-bedroom second-floor apartment on a busy residential/commercial street about a block away from a small lake. Our apartment is modest in size, roughly 600 square feet.
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What’s for lunch? I have no idea, but we’ll take two…
HANOI, VIETNAM – After a stimulating morning at the Museum of Ethnology and a “quick stop” at the gigantic VinMart supermarket that turned into an epic hour-plus meander over the entire store, we were finally back on the street, and more than ready to find something to eat.
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