Lens Blog Pictures of the Day
An image of mine popped up last week on the extremely tasty NYTimes LENS Blog. The New York Philharmonic was in Hanoi for a pair of shows at the historic opera house (whose doors first opened in French colonial Indochina in 1911), but instead of focusing on the performance, I concentrated on the reactions of [...]
50th anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
50th Anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Trail – Images by Julian Wainwright 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a supply line of roads, paths and jungle tracks largely responsible for defeating American forces during the Vietnam War. With much of the trail now disappearing into overgrown jungle, and large [...]
In transit….
(12:36am) In the Vancouver airport. So clean, so quiet. The opposite of the Saigon street-scene below. My flight leaves at 2:55am. Rather painful…. ((12:51am) My thoughts turn to food. Selection at the Vancouver airport around 1am is limited to vending machines. I’d love a bowl of pho right about now….