A Humble Exchange of Gifts – Barbara Ellen Thompson – Vietnam 2014
Mr Huang lived in a humble dwelling made of sheets of corrugated iron next door to our house in Hue, Vietnam. He had a small red plastic table and four matching chairs in front of his house. Whenever my husband, Don, and I passed his home he would insist that we sit down and join […]
Stephen Cottrell – Thailand 2007 – Japan 2009 – Vietnam 2013
The English novelist George Orwell best captured my first experience in Vietnam with his penetrating words, “If the war didn’t kill you it was bound to start you thinking.” Having survived the former, I became a huge fan of the latter. It can be safely assumed that many readers of this article have experienced defining […]