As my sister’s due date came and went, my urge to go home intensified. She’d been pregnant for 17 years or so and I’d seen photos of her bump,.
11 years ago
We have officially found a new bolt-hole when Ho Chi Minh City gets too much. Our new holiday hot spot is just 3.5 hours and a million miles away.
11 years ago
Dalat was chosen as as our summer holiday destination for one very simple reason: it’s not hot. I grew up in a very hot place, a dry and dusty.
12 years ago
The baby is almost eight weeks old and we’ve been back in Vietnam for four weeks. So why no updates? Well, the baby, who began life as a sleeping.
12 years ago
The wait is finally over, the baby is here! He arrived 10 minutes into the Year of the Horse, 31 (mostly boring) hours after being induced. He was born.
12 years ago
Preparations are underway for an old friend to visit us in Ho Chi Minh City. And the preparations are taking the form of planning what we’re going to do.
13 years ago
“Lizard curry,” Darling Man announces, seemingly apropos of nothing. I snigger. We are in Bookafe in Quy Nhon, a seaside town on Vietnam’s south-central coast. We have been talking.
13 years ago
“Tonight we are going to sleep on the plane,” I reminded Miss M this morning. “No,” she said forcefully. “I sleep. You sit. And then we see Nanna.” And.
13 years ago