Encountering Cambodia and Vietnam - Hue, Tuesday 2016 March 1
March 1st 2016 I was woken at 5:50 this morning by exhortations emanating from the Party Committee building not far away. (These buildings are quite distinct – austere, yellow and white, fronted by a wide red banner.) Later Thuy explained that this loudspeaker service combines news stories for the illiterate and public announcements. (The literacy rate is high in Vietnam.)
At breakfast a few of us got talking
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