Sprog in Saigon 2003

You Want BaBa?

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October 1st 2007
Daily breakfast in Hanoi: The open air balcony of the executive floor dining room at the Melia Hotel. Fresh fruit, nice smoked salmon, good eggs, steaming pho bo, decent tea. The view is lovely and misty this early, the ant-sized traffic below still barely humming - Good Morning Vietnam😊 I'd visited Saigon a few years ago. Fleetingly. Stopping off with Sprog on the way to the beaches fa ... 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