I made it all the way from Cape Town to Bangkok without any trouble at all and arrived at around 7pm, local time. As always, I had already set my watch to the time it would be wherever I was going. This helps a lot when it comes to jet lag. The connecting flight to Hanoi was …
I am not feeling at my best today. My ankle became swollen during the long flight to Hanoi, which is to be expected for a man of my age who drinks as much, in the free departure lounge, before flying as I do. It’s happened before and so I knew exactly what I needed to …
I am having to revise my approach to living in Hanoi, and quickly too. It’s a long story but I am going to tell you anyway, so settle in. It begins in Cape Town. In South Africa we white people are often hassled and harangued. Not necessarily threatened but everybody has their hand out. White, …
I decided I would celebrate my first evening in Hanoi with style, by staying alone in my hotel room. I had been surrounded by millions of people on airplanes and in airports for two days and needed some peace. So I made a plan to procure and bottle of local whiskey, for research reasons, obviously, …
