When I decided we were going to visit Vietnam, I was aware that I wasn’t going to be very popular with the Weirdo I go on adventures with. I knew he was going to balk at the idea of the food choices so I hatched a plan to win him around by indulging one of…

We visited Vietnam in January 2024 and started our trip in Hanoi with a somewhat shaky plan to “just work our way south” over the space of around a month. The National Holiday of Tet fell within our time in the country. One of our few focuses was to ensure that we were somewhere great…