Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

I have posted a gallery on our tour to the Perfume Pagoda outside of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Current Album: 0704 Perfume Pagoda Images:

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Getting there is half [...]

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I’ve added a gallery from July 3 of a tour of Hanoi City (mostly in the rain as it turns out). The Ho Chi Minh Tomb is incredible but you are not allowed cameras so I was only able to get shots was we walked by to get into the queue. Here’s the gallery:
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I have posted a gallery of pictures from our first day in Hanoi.
Current Album: 0702 1st day in Hanoi Images:

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It goes along with this [...]

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On my birthday I thought I would do a small brain download on a number of firsts I managed to accomplish in the past year. 
I am thrilled to report that I actually managed a squat toilet on the last day of my 40th year.  Perhaps not a big deal to many of you, but let [...]

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 Since it is Sharon’s birthday, I thought I would read her blogs and make a few corrections to reflect the actual reality rather than Sharon’s somewhat skewed version of events. Look for sections that have been crossed out. Where I have added something, I have put it in bold.
Today (at least where we are, sitting [...]

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I goofed up today.  I know, say it ain’t so. (Items in bold edited by Jacques)
We booked a tour of Hanoi City today.  We got up bright and early, had breakfast and waited in the hotel lobby for our bus.  A bus shows up, some guy walks up to us and shows us a piece [...]

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We have arrived in hot, sweaty and rainy Vietnam.  Our flight yesterday took us from Bangkok to Hanoi where we found a great little guest house called Heart Hotel.  Our “concierge” has booked us up now until the 13th of July so we have actually planned more than a day into the future.  This is [...]

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