About this blog!

This blog started life in October 2008 when I first arrived in Vietnam, supposedly for one year, and was created as a means by which I could keep family and friends up to date with my new life, without having to write a host of emails (and try to remember who I'd sent them to). I wound up using Shutterfly as a place to store and display large amounts of photos and so there is a link and an approximate correlation between many blog entries and the albums created on Shutterfly.

It is now the end of August 2012! Over time the blog has evolved more and more to be a travelogue, and so the record of daily life has been less and less apparent. I guess this is an indication of being more settled, but I think it's also a sign that I've become less aware of 'new-ness' or 'strange-ness' in my environment. The frequency of entries has also slowed down considerably, while the lag between doing something and writing about it has increased! So I offer my apologies to my readers for this, but can't guarantee that things will change!! Sorry.