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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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Celebrating independence in a country that welcomes the world Europe...
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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...

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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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Flying the Flag

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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 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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Hot black coffee at Amy's Coffee Amy's Coffee is a spacious, Vietnamese-style coffee place just outside Vinhomes Grand Park.
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