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Playing Pollyanna in Asia

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March 12th 2012
Seven days ago I packed my life into a bag weighing twenty seven kilos. Five days ago I sent ten kilos of it home to Ireland in a used cigarette box. Today I'm quite cold. The bag was packed in an apartment in Seoul, Korea. I was stuffing and squashing while looking out at a landscape of grey and brown. The cardboard box was sent from a post office-cum-sunglasses shop in Hanoi, Vietnam. I w ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

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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