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What‘s the best way to avoid walking? Petrol or electric? If you come from Europe, one of the first adjustments in Vietnam is discovering that a distance you would normally walk is apparently considered a journey. In your typical European city, walking fifteen minutes to...

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Walk or Take the Bike

What‘s the best way to avoid walking? Petrol or...
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Cheaper than Bangkok, less polished than Lisbon, more urban...
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Celebrating independence in a country that welcomes the world Europe...
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The Reach-Around Taxi

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Walk or Take the Bike

What‘s the best way to avoid walking? Petrol or electric? If you come from Europe, one of the first adjustments in Vietnam...

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Walk or Take the Bike

What‘s the best way to avoid walking? Petrol or...
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Drink of the Day (4)

Oolong Milk Tea at 7am Coffee Coffee needs company!...
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The Caravan’s next Stop? Ho Chi Minh City for Digital Nomads

Cheaper than Bangkok, less polished than Lisbon, more urban...
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What‘s the best way to avoid walking? Petrol or electric? If you come from Europe, one of the first adjustments in Vietnam is discovering that a distance you would normally walk is apparently considered a journey. In...
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Oolong Milk Tea at 7am Coffee Coffee needs company! Here is a cup of Oolong Tea with an Iced Bac Xiu (milk coffee). 7am Coffee is a beautiful coffee shop on the ground floor of BS5...
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The Caravan’s next Stop? Ho Chi Minh City for Digital Nomads

Cheaper than Bangkok, less polished than Lisbon, more urban than Bali. Ho Chi Minh City may be one of the best digital-nomad cities precisely because it was never built for digital nomads. There is a familiar...
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So You Don’t Want to Teach English?

What foreigners actually get paid to do in Vietnam Arrive in Vietnam with a foreign passport, and sooner or later someone will suggest that you...
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Vinhomes Grand Park at Night

Walking our neighbourhood at night has a special charm, with all the beautiful lights illuminating the buildings. Here are some impressions.
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The Most Versatile Phrase in the Vietnamese Language

Đi chơi Pronunciation: /ɗi˧ t͡ɕəːj˧/Roughly: “dee choy” English has a few words that do suspicious amounts of work. “Right” can mean correct, the opposite of left, immediately,...
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