Selfie please Aunty!

People of southern India

We are the most unlikely celebrities, but we feel honoured, and laugh and joke with the schoolchildren (and adults too!) who call out to us “selfie please Aunty!” It’s a delight to stand with them as they all gather round and take selfies with us. And of course it gives us the opportunity to ask… Continue reading Selfie please Aunty!

India Videos

Click here to view all our videos. And you can also subscribe to our YouTube channel here:  Notdunroamin YouTube videos. In November and December 2017 we visited incredible India, here’s a little of what we saw: (keep checking back, we’re here until early January!) Delhi: Friends in Delhi invited us to join them at a cousin’s… Continue reading India Videos

Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon, or as it’s now known, Ho Chi Minh City, is a port city, and so it’s been settled by many different peoples, merchants and traders over the centuries. Khmer fishermen lived here before the Nguyen Dynasty came in. Later French colonists, looking for a trading post in SE Asia, seized the city and declared… Continue reading Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam Videos

*** We have many more posts on Vietnam still to come ~ watch this space! *** We spent six weeks in Vietnam during February/March 2017. We very much enjoyed meeting the people, learning a little about the different cultures around the country, including some of the ethnic minorities in central and NW Vietnam. Oh and… Continue reading Vietnam Videos