The joys of tagging and wisdom of knowing exactly when your flight leaves
February 18th 2016 We walked back yesterday through the park and along Pham Ngu Lao for Sam to change some money, the best rate was 31,500 to the pound. Overshot De Tham doing this and ended up having to walk down the street leading to the other end of Bui Vien. Insane! It looked like there was literally nowhere to walk along the side with solid traffic coming at you. We are used to it but this was ridiculous! We st
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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 
