Another New Year - the months rocket by.  In fact, it's already past the first full moon of the year, which as you all know is Year of the Metal/GoldRat.  Here in Hanoi things have not yet got back into full swing after the Tết break - it officially ended last Monday, but concerns about the coronavirus have kept things quiet.  All government ( Read more... )

Lovely to read of so much exhilaration and hope on the many marches.  I'd been anxious - about communications systems, amongst other things - and it was so good to find that it wasn't necessary at all, in the event!  :)    (But it was interesting to see it confirmed by some people involved, that mobile phone/cell phone coverage does indeed falter ( Read more... )