Apr 08
We’ve been working on some food stories here in Hoi An and that translates to eating oodles of noodles, averaging one bowl of the local favourite, cao lầu, per day (more on that dish in upcoming posts). Having worked our way through all the street stalls, backstreet eateries and recommended restaurants sampling the dish, we headed …
Mar 24
How to photograph people when travelling so that they engage with the camera and, more importantly, you don’t offend them, isn’t all that hard. Yet every day in Hoi An I witness some very disappointing behaviour. On my early morning photo-taking walks through the local Hoi An markets I rarely spot a foreigner. The market …
Mar 11
It was Tet in Hoi An. Tet – Vietnamese New Year – is a great time to visit this charming town and we were feeling good about being here for the celebrations. I was particularly excited about the prospecting of photographing Tet in Hoi An. Because there were midnight fireworks, I had taken my tripod …
Feb 19
We’ve been asked by readers on Twitter and by email whether we’ve taken time out from blogging and we know it looks that way. Actually, it’s been something of an accidental hiatus in Hoi An, where we unexpectedly found ourselves having to settle in for a while to get through some writing, and for Terence …
Jan 25
Alterations. Hanoi. As you can tell by the dearth of new stories on our site so far this year, we’ve been busy with our ‘day jobs’. As Lara explained in her last post, we had so much writing and photography work that we decided to slow down and stay on in Hanoi in an apartment …
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