Reasons to go North

Having just had the quietest and I must say cheapest, Festive Season ever, I am about to enter another. Vietnam, always up for a...

Already more than twenty days into the New Year! From writing about two or three hikes a week I am shrunk to one ‘every so often’....

I am frequently asked ‘what do you like most about Ho Chi Minh’. The answer: food and people. And in the absence of mountains my ‘social...

As the the inner districts of Ho Chi Minh sprawl to nearly 500km2 , and I live pretty close to the centre, it is hardly a hop and...

Facebook and Google have both taken it upon themselves to define my year, not quite as I would have done. So I thought I’d give my own...

Houses packed as close as Lego bricks with little room for a blade of grass let alone a garden in parts of Ho Chi Minh. But up on roof...