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Bánh cuốn – Spring Rolls

Posted by on Feb 5, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | 0 comments

  Back in the kitchen for another cooking lesson. Spring rolls or bánh cuốn.  These I think I may be able to make at home. Provided I...

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Parks, Gardens and the Zoo

Posted by on Feb 2, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places | 0 comments

  Among the rattle of bikes, screeching of buses and malodorous fumes, Saigon has a liberal smattering of gardens, parks and green...

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New Year’s Day 2015

Posted by on Jan 5, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places | 0 comments

  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...

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Fourteen from 2014

Posted by on Dec 31, 2014 in Blog, Cumbria, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places, Walking | 0 comments

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...

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High Rise Horticulture

Posted by on Dec 23, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | 0 comments

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...

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