Hard Seats

It got considerably busier than this. Those are TV screens that you see hanging from the ceiling. Sad to think that if we had them on trains in the UK, they would probably have been vandalised.

Hard seats and soft hearts to Dong Hoi

September 10th 2010
09/09/10 We have moved on again and are hoping that tomorrow will we see our very first beach a) in Vietnam and b) of our trip. I guess, if we are being strictly technical about it, we have actually already seen beach on one of the islands in Halong Bay but it had the feel of imported builders sand about it and the water was pretty murky so my vote is that that one didn’t count. Don ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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