I know how Julie feels

Cool Dalat

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November 20th 2009
What a difference a day makes. Got up at 4.30am (again) to meet a 5am taxi at the hotel. Predictably enough there was no taxi waiting for us. Anyway one was rustled up from somewhere on short notice. You might think that the streets of HCMC would be empty(ish) at 5 am. Not so. Still a bun fight to get across your average intersection. Vietnamese Airlines were a model of efficiency and aft ... 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