french feel

Hoian - old merchant town

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January 10th 2007
...and then it rained. We feel like you blog-readers are now getting your revenge back on us. It's very much like a true English summer; it won't stop raining. (although it's still warm enough to walk around in shorts and t-shirt.) Hoi-an itself is a very French feeling town. It's colonial in style, but the "frenchness" is different to the "English" colonial style of India. Yellow pained walls ... 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