Last night went to dinner at friends from Perths unit in District 7 which is an area where a lot of expats live because there isnt as much hussle and bussle as closer into the city centre. As you can see the unit is very modern. My mother-in-law made Pho earlier in...
Note to self. Draytek seems to offer good mid range DSL firewalls with plenty of features for the small to medium size business. A number of the hotels offering WiFi access here in Vietnam appear to be using Draytek "Vigor" kit.
I've tried this on Windows XP and it works. If you get this: If the Start Button Run... window is still available you can sometimes get around it by running the 'at' command. You get a system level command window. The at command time value is just a minute ahead of...
Went to the Cu Chi tunnels. A complex of tunnels about 60kms outside of Ho Chi Minh used by the Viet Cong ( Communists) in their fight against the American "Imperialist" aggressors. Its amazing how the wording changes when the story is told from the other side of the...
Transporting roof tiles Front door motorbike access Biodegradable drinkware Prime mover
Currently in Ho Chi Minh or Saigon as people still call it. A big big city. Have met up with sister and mother in-law and been out to dinner last night The hotel we are currently in isnt as good as it could be, and is too far from the in-laws. So we are going to move...
Sitting in a resturant watching the world go by at the moment. Today we did a tour of My Son ( pronounced Me Sun ). I will blog about that later. Lisa has left me here to go off and find a shoulder bag so we can take some more stuff on the flight. We went to a boat...
My Son pronounced Me Sun is an ancient set of Hindu temple ruins about an hour out of Hoi-an built by the Cham people. It was bombed so heavily during the American War because it was a Viet Cong base that the temples are pretty much rubble. Adding to that is the prior...
The first day in Hoi-an we went to a tailor to get measured for clothes. Today was the final fitting and shipment home. Hopefully when we get them home they will look good. I always get buyers remorse, but at 1/3 the cost of back home its too good to pass up. They are...
Hoi-an is a tourist trap. All the same its got great ambience and westerners can see Vietnamese Culture while swaddled in the familiar.