Lunch at the Ba Le Well

This fantastic restaurant was a highlight of the trip - the restaurant is right next to well I mentioned in the blog entry. Here you wrap a spring roll, grilled pork, lettuce and herbs in two half-moon sheets of thin rice paper. It was absolutely delicious - and the Vietnamese lady running the business insisted on making nearly all our rolls...obviously we weren't doing it well enough !

Time Warp

August 2nd 2006
It's six in the morning. Fresh (or not-so-fresh) off our night bus from Nha Trang, we set off on a couple of xe ôm to find our hotel, which I had booked the day before. We are staying in a tiny five-room hotel going by the name Minh A. It is a 17th-century house which up until a few years ago was inhabited by the descendants of a Hội An merchant family. Because commerce is what Hội 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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