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Vung Tau
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22 apr 18 |
My South Vietnam trip is coming to an end. It was great, but I still believe what I did when I was fifteen - North Vietnam is better.
I rode up to the Cu Chi tunnels, where the Viet Cong (don't call them that) had their underground... read more
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The War Remnants Museum
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17 apr 18 |
If you google "bob kerrey war crimes", you get lots of light-hearted banter about Bob Kerrey, baby-killer and, later, American politician, from the US newspapers. The Vietnamese account in the War Remnants Museum is more to the point.
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Ho Chi Minh City
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15 apr 18 |
Yesterday, it took me longer to get into Saigon than it did the NLA in 1975. I attached my phone to my handlebars using a "selfie stick", but it kept losing the directions on the Google map. I had to keep going into cafes and asking for... read more
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Last day in Dalat
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10 apr 18 |
There is a supermarket in Dalat called "Big C". It's underground, by the lake, underneath the big yellow plastic thing. The first time I went there, it was alright. The second time, the jobsworths wouldn't let me come in the wrong entrance,... read more
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Dalat after four days
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09 apr 18 |
If you're into pictures of pretty girls with guns, Vietnam is even better than America.
Bang let me stay at his hotel free for a week. When we go out for dinner with him and his staff, he insists on paying. All he wants is me to help him... read more
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Buon Ma Thuot to Dalat
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05 apr 18 |
I rode from Buon Ma Thuot about 100 easy Km to Dam Rong, an unfriendly little town just over the river that divides Ak Lak Province from Lam Dong. They did have interesting omelettes in rice paper - unfortunately, my picture of them is not... read more
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Phu Tuc to Buon Ma Thuot
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31 mar 18 |
The man who bombed the palace in Saigon - Nguyen Thanh Trung
I was always impressed by the man who mutinied against the collapsing South Vietnamese regime on April 8 1975 by turning his American F-5E fighter against his own side, bombing... read more
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E254: Cannot allocate color error in vim
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29 mar 18 |
Using OS/X version 10.13.3. I made an error in my .vimrc file, didn't make a backup, and got into a huge mess. Tried everything suggested by googling "E254: Cannot allocate color error in vim". brew install vim, install MacVim, use mvim,... read more
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Pleiku to Phu Tuc and some real barbecued duck
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28 mar 18 |
I did a short run to Chư S https://hanaspeak.com. I walked to the co-op and bought some bread and cheese. Next day, I got up early and did the 100 Km to Phu Tuc on what used to be route 7, where the South Vietnamese army got ... read more
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To Pleiku over the Mang Yang pass
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25 mar 18 |
It wasn't as hard as it was for the French army in 1954!
It was about 10% steep, and I think I only stopped once - to drink water. At the top, I found a cafe with the ubiquitous sports drink "Revive". Then it was rolling hills and... read more
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Phu Cat to An Khe
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23 mar 18 |
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From Quang Ngai to Binh Dinh
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20 mar 18 |
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Son My (My Lai)
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15 mar 18 |
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Da Nang and Hoi Na
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12 mar 18 |
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Hue day two
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10 mar 18 |
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In which he continues his exploration of Vietnam
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09 mar 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXX - evolution takes millions of years
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02 mar 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXIX - first commercial tanker crosses arctic sea route in winter
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13 feb 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVIII - a climate change contradiction in a software talk
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09 feb 18 |
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John Perry Barlow
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08 feb 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVII - Alaska is warming - and that's a bad thing
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01 feb 18 |
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Yee-haw!
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17 jan 18 |
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The joy of bitcoind
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16 jan 18 |
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Installing Ubuntu Linux on an old Mac Air
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10 jan 18 |
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You can't make it up XCXVI - the Guardian is back on form with the headline of the year
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23 dec 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXV - the Guardian has a reasonable article
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09 dec 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXIV - if the warming don't get you, the acid will
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27 nov 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXIII - climate change is responsible for child brides in South Asia
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27 nov 17 |
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London mayor Sadiq Khan bans Uber
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22 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXII - if you think Nazis are bad, try being a climate skeptic in the Bay Area
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14 sep 17 |
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Avoid Sriphat Medical Center in Chiang Mai
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12 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCXI - Jennifer Lawrence and the hurricanes
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11 sep 17 |
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You can't make it up XCX - global warming adds to Afghanistan's woes
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28 aug 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIX - volcanoes cause Antarctic ice to melt
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13 aug 17 |
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And yet another reason...
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11 jul 17 |
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Another reason to support Uber
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28 jun 17 |
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Uber Über Alles
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20 jun 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVIII - global warming study postponed because of ice
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14 jun 17 |
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Nepal
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17 may 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVII - the March for Science - the corruption of science by the left wing
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23 apr 17 |
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You can't make it up XCVI - a scientific measure of sea level rise: "worrisome"
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14 apr 17 |
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You can't make it up XCV - the Guardian insults the intelligence of the global warming movement
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31 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIV - global warming helped cause Brexit
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25 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCIII - ocean warming is accelerating - advanced computer models
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14 mar 17 |
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You can't make it up XCII - global warming explains heat, cold, drought, floods...
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19 feb 17 |
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You can't make it up XCI - climatologist compares scepticism to Soviet pseudo-science
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06 feb 17 |
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You can't make it up XC - the global warming shell game in a nutshell
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20 dec 16 |
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Phoenix Life Assurance company nightmare
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08 dec 16 |
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Remember when MySql for Rails on Mac was easier than PostgreSQL?
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02 dec 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIX - U.S. Puts Climate Denier in office, Climate Change Action In Limbo
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13 nov 16 |
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Three strikes
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10 nov 16 |
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Nationalism isn't the main cause of war today
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16 oct 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVIII - climate change affects people differently based on ‘gender identity’
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04 oct 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVII - another comment not deleted in the Guardian
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04 oct 16 |
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Another funny example of an online ad involving Muslims
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01 sep 16 |
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The Guardian shows its true colours
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03 jul 16 |
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My favourite picture from Britain's EU referendum
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24 jun 16 |
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A comment NOT deleted in the Guardian
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25 may 16 |
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A mistaken advert on Youtube
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09 may 16 |
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Climbing at Ton Sai
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22 apr 16 |
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Me on Huayna Potosi in Bolivia and some locals
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22 apr 16 |
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The refutation of morality
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19 apr 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXVI - DOJ has discussed prosecuting "climate change deniers"
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13 mar 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXV - magazine publishes hoax "feminist glaciology" paper
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06 mar 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIV - climatologists clarify catastrophe deferment
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01 mar 16 |
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Elvis Costello's Puns
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20 feb 16 |
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Brexit
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20 feb 16 |
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The best article about conspiracy pseudo-theories I've ever read
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16 feb 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXIII - Counterpunch gives in to groupthink
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04 feb 16 |
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How to install the Phoenix framework
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29 jan 16 |
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No wonder the Middle East is such a mess
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07 jan 16 |
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You can't make it up LXXXII - extreme weather events and WMDs
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28 dec 15 |
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Climbing at Crazy Horse Buttress near Chiang Mai
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19 dec 15 |
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Hanoi-Chiang Mai - 3000 kilometres without a flat tyre
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13 dec 15 |
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The Guardian's worst act of censorship yet
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08 dec 15 |
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A month without the internet
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02 dec 15 |
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Lies about Vietnam
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02 dec 15 |
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The Vinh Moc tunnels and a US Navy recruiting slogan
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05 nov 15 |
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Phong Nha
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30 oct 15 |
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Thanh Hoa to Ky Lien via Vinh and Ha Tinh
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26 oct 15 |
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Quan Hoa to Thanh Hoa
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23 oct 15 |
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Mai Chau to Quan Hoa
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21 oct 15 |
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A holocaust survivor and some cute kids in Son La
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18 oct 15 |
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Potential rock-climbing near Tuan Giao
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16 oct 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXXI - theregister.co.uk's Freeman Dyson scoop
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14 oct 15 |
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Dien Bien Phu
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13 oct 15 |
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Stuck inside of Lai Chau with the Dien Bien Phu Blues again
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09 oct 15 |
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A ride halfway to Sa Pa
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03 oct 15 |
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Country roads between Yen Bai and Lao Cai
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02 oct 15 |
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Yen Bai and a typical taxi driver
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01 oct 15 |
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One of those days when everything goes wrong...
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30 sep 15 |
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Vinh Phuc
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29 sep 15 |
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The road from Ha Long to Viet Tri
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29 sep 15 |
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Climbing with Asia Outdoors
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26 sep 15 |
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Re-reading the history of post-WWII Vietnam
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21 sep 15 |
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You can't make it up LXXX - the latest attempt by the global warming movement to jail dissidents
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19 sep 15 |
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Deep water soloing
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19 sep 15 |
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Hanoi to Haiphong
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