Mysteries of the Deep

Hanoi is a blur of mopeds and horns blaring. Roads are crossed amidst a throng of speeding, overloaded, Honda Dreams by refusing to face the traffic and walking slowly across the road. Dave Prowse would be turning in his grave if he was dead, and watching children get eaten up by hungry taxis. It didn’t […]

Achievement of the day: gerkin off. Well I had my face ‘cleaned’ at a local beauty parlour. I could tell that it wasn’t really aimed at western men, given that the bed I had to lie on was about 5 inches shorter than I was. But the beautician got down to scrubbing my face nontheless.

So its easy to feel guilty about not actually doing anything while in foreign countries, save shout and drink and whizz round in contrived vehicles. “Shouldn’t I be seeing temples?”, “What did that guidebook say about feeling sorry for the poor souls wh o sit and watch American movies in bars all day?”. Well I