Welcome to “Small things, mostly”. Some stories here from my travels and stay in Asia over the last two decades.
- The art of leaving notes
- Asia Overland, perhaps the best travel guide ever
- The neighbour (Saigon)
- I love Lan Anh (Saigon)
- Tibetan tea and Nur
- The girl with the fixed lens camera (Bangkok)
- Please don't hurry my order (Singapore)
- The old backpacker area of Bangkok
- Airports
- A return to the North (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
- New Year's day (Japan)
- Million elephants and the fastest train (Lao)
- Alley kids in Vientiane
- I love Hanoi, but only in the winters
- A week in Mangalore (India)
- Remembering the cutest bookseller (Burma)
- Other people’s lives in little alleys
- For a free view of a giraffe
- Holland Village (Singapore)
- Music from a lost age (Cambodia)
- Why I love Saigon
- It was good knowing the curious China
- Travelogues and travels (Vietnam)
- Postage stamps (Saigon)
- A large object that makes familiar sounds
- The little phone (Vietnam)
- A certain city called iPoh (Malaysia)
- Favourite bookstores in South East Asia
- A return to Shanghai
- Travels with the Korean fish
- The precious (Saigon, Vietnam)
- Cindy and banh beo (Saigon)
- Is there an Ahp inside? (Cambodia)
- The kitten that rescued us (Saigon)
- Hello stinky tofu (Taiwan)
- Do you have a hiding place? (Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Saigon)
- I am a cat and I love your city (Indonesia)
- Little friends in China
- Saigon, April 1975
- Came for the ghosts, stayed for the view (Vietnam)
- A new Korean idol (Saigon)
- Always wander into that alley (Vietnam)
- All you have to do is exist (Saigon)
- A face in the crowd (Hanoi)
- Takoyaki laments (Saigon)
- Shocking pink (Burma)
- The cutest bookseller in the world (Burma)
- Down by the Mekong delta (Vietnam)
- Exploring ethnic enclaves in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- An odd god (Cambodia)
- For the love of free food (Malaysia)
- The raid (Malaysia)
- Skirts (Thailand)
- Food is just an excuse (Saigon, Tokyo)
- The reader (Saigon)
- Almost a new friend (Cambodia)
- Thinker, watcher, knitter, spy
- Chemistry lessons in rural Java (Indonesia)
- The thing that flows in your blood over here (Indonesia)
- The caravanserai (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- In Hoi An
- Cheap Chinese goods (Congo, Burma)
- Bandrek in Bandung (Indonesia)
- The stick men of Chongqing (China)
- The Ramayana (Thailand)
- A rakhi from Dan (China)
- What does Bondegi taste like?
- Summers in Burma
- 88 and 521, bye bye and I love you (China)
- Why I love Burma
- 1970s Thai fashion
- We were playing war games
- Naughty stuff in Chengdu
- A strong miss (China)
- Ibn Battuta and the Moroccans (Singapore)
- To make a little girl smile (Thailand)
- Sometimes, it is good to tell a lie (China)
- Special feelings in Chengdu
- The lantern city (China)
- Under the deep blue Mongolian sky
- Mutton soup in the ancient capital (China)
- The dancer (Korea)
- Taking the wrong bus (Korea)
- For a glimpse of Burma
- Chairman Mao was a good boy (Changsha, China)
- A close shave in Shanghai
- The island of mystery and magic (The Philippines)
- The áo dài calendar (Hanoi)
- Time to go back (Lao)
- The Vietnamese dub (Nha Trang, Vietnam)
- Personal DJ (Singapore)
- Silly poems in high Tibet
- I want to stay (Burma)