RestlessWanderlust

Hoi An’s Full Moon Festival

Once a month Hoi An, Vietnam – and much of Asia – celebrates the full moon with an evening of festivities.  Hoi An’s old town area shuts off any excess lighting and brings out candles and Chinese lanterns that sway in the breeze off of the river and the area becomes a pedestrian only zone.  [...]

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A Silk Factory Tour

I’ve realized in writing my blogs that I am apparently fascinated by how things are made.  Stencils in Laos, weasel coffee in Vietnam and now a blog about silk. On the same tour of the countryside around Dalat, Vietnam that took us for that cup of weasel coffee we also stopped at a small silk [...]

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Ah yes, the old weasel-poop coffee

I remember watching a movie that described a coffee made from beans which were eaten by weasels and squirrels, pooped out and then roasted and shipped across the world to be sold to rich idiots for outrageous prices.  I’m assuming your reaction right now is similar to what mine was at the time.  I couldn’t [...]

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