View from the balcony

April 30th 2007
My final train journey in Vietnam got off to a bad start when I discovered my MP3 player was completely blank. No idea how it happened, but there were 0 songs on it. This was not good, with 8.5 hours of train travel to endure, but I managed to survive the night without my usual dose of Euro music. Arrival in Lao Cai (the jumping off point for Sa Pa) saw us immediately on the receiving end of a ... 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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John McCabe

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I quit the rat race in 2005, after working as an IT project manager for over a decade. I then travelled around the world for 4 years, a period of my life which is covered by this blog. After finishing my trip, I wrote a book about my dissatisfaction with my career, my reasons for quitting my job, life as a first-time thirtysomething backpacker, and finally the lessons learned from being exposed to experiences and people that I would never have encountered if I'd stayed in my office. The book is called "Out Of Office Male" and is available at all the usual eBook outlets. I took a ... full info

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