COCKROACHES AND EXPATS IN HANOI .THEY COME OUT AFTER DARK I have been in Hanoi since 1999. There again, I have been in Saigon, Devon, Medan, Devon, Veneto, Devon, Saigon again, Devon, Haiphong, Devon, Kalimantan, Devon, Khartoum, Devon, Bournemouth and Devon since 1999. Maybe the other places helped me or maybe being a village boy helped. I don’t know the answer but I go to the market here and, I swear, I am the only westerner they ever see. Evidence? - they tell me so; either in words or by calling everyone’s attention to the appearance of the alien. That would be unsurprising except that I keep seeing these very tall people with big noses appearing out of the alleyways about the time before English classes start or before the football is on tv in the
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