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Crete without the crowds

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Open borders in Africa right now

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The North Face family, Made in Vietnam

The North Face family, Made in Vietnam

We were very cold during the second part of our trip in Vietnam. Did not expect it could be grey, rainy and chilly at this time of the year. Best time to visit, we learnt, is April-May. So when I stumbled upon a store selling warm North Face jackets in Hue, I could...

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Celebrating the Year of the Cat in Vietnam

Celebrating the Year of the Cat in Vietnam

We left Vietnam on the 1st day of the Tet last Thursday, which is a very colourful celebration of the Lunar New Year. In the Vietnamese calendar, it's now the year of the cat. If someone can explain why it's different from the Chinese calendar which is entering the...

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Hustling and Bustling Saigon

Hustling and Bustling Saigon

Although I don't normally like to make quick judgements, sometimes you have to trust your feelings... ...and I did not particularly like Ho Chi Minh City (ex Saigon). Too much pollution, too much construction. But there's one thing we really had fun doing: Trying...

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Vietnam. Same Same?

Vietnam. Same Same?

I first came to Vietnam 12 years ago. At that time I was backpacking with a girlfriend. Vietnamese people joke around with the expression same same, which they use a lot to express the fact that things are pretty much the same no matter how you look at them: a...

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Show & Tell with Munsterkids on Vietnam

Show & Tell with Munsterkids on Vietnam

Munsterkids originated in Australia, from the fictional trouble-maker character Mikey Munster, a skinny street kid from the town of Dunster. You gotta read the whole story to understand the music, art and street culture behind this very cool kids clothing brand. Oh,...

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How I traveled to Syria for my birthday, and loved it

How I traveled to Syria for my birthday, and loved it

Yes I traveled to Syria last week. Not the broken and abused Syria that we all know from the news but the Syria full of colours, smiles and flavours that once stood proud. That’s right, that's where we all went on Thursday night with a bunch of super girlfriends and...

i am a pure and proud product of immigration

i am a pure and proud product of immigration

this is me in the 70's at my beloved grandmother's house.  i am a pure and proud product of immigration. My Christian grandmother escaped poverty in Italy between the two wars and crossed the Alps with mother and brothers in search of a better life in the mining towns...

I wonder what Hemingway would say about Cuba today

I wonder what Hemingway would say about Cuba today

Everyone's talking about Cuba these days, and I am thrown 20 years back to when I first visited this special island, and left it with mixed feelings about its future. I was 20 years old back then. During a summer internship in Caracas (that's a whole other blog...

The wife vs. the mother, Bhutan |1|

The wife vs. the mother, Bhutan |1|

We're back from a trip in Bhutan, which I really want to document properly on BozAround. It will be mainly through photos as I took sooo many, and they will tell much more about this beautiful country than my own words. Bhutan is roughly the size of Switzerland,...