‘very knowledgable, but never a snob’
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but Getting Where owes a lot to Anthony Bourdain. Five years ago, I went to eat at The Kitchin in…
Tag: Vietnam
Saigon. Or Ho Chi Minh. (Depending on who you talk to)
I still don’t have a definitive answer on this, so I have mostly been calling it Saigon. This seems to be what the locals call it. (And the…
Hobbling around Hoi An
I woke up on the train to Danang to find the family who’d been in my compartment had gotten off sometime very early in the morning. I was…
Hanoi
When I got to the China/Vietnam border, I met a guy called Duccio from Italy in the exit queue for China who’d been on the same bus. I…
Road Rules: Semester at Sea
It seems MTV might have actually influenced my life in some significant, non-musical way. I’ve been thinking about this lately, and I’ve been struggling to come up with…