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Photo taken by US serviceman. "Vungers Beach" Vung Tau 1967 A 'friendly' Douglas A-1 Skyraider makes a high-speed, low pass directly over US servicemen while they enjoy the waves along Vung Tau Beach, South Vietnam. Welcome to the readers from the Phillipines - Kumusta Bank and Shoal of Time Vietnamese Fortune Cookie 如果愛是答案你回家 If Love is the Answer You're Home Vung Tau Beach The local beach resort from Sai Gon. Nha Trang it is not but people were once again super friendly. See Nha Trang below: http://guerillaction.blogspot.com/2013/07/nha-trang.html Nha trang is still the most visited of my posts on GuerrillaZ. The most relaxing place I have ever visited. But this is Vung Tau. Super shy son, proud father Father had to chase son around for fully five minutes to get this shot. Vung Tau had something of the English seaside; deck chairs, mucky sand and a general scruffiness. The h...

London St. Pancras International Station. The Champagne Bar next to the Paris train at St. Pancras One of my favourite places in London is St. Pancras Station. There are enough bars and cafes here to meet people and hangout. The station has a level of romance you might associate with trains departing for Paris Gare du Nord (and Brussels). Two hours and your are sipping chaud Suchard chocolat at the Gare du Nord brasserie. It is easy to become blasé about trips to Paris so I won't and move onto London. The St. Pancras Concourse Okay so it was raining this time. but in a maritime climate you gotta expect inclement weather. Anyway inside the station you are dry and it is a thing of beauty. Vast quantities of pound sterling went into restoring and remodelling this station back to former glories. I took a tube to Leicester Square and walked the short distance to the National Gallery which houses room after room of nationally and inte...

Welcome to readers from Guyana, Tunisia and Brazil.  Thanks so much for visiting GuerillaZ there have been so many visitors today.   Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long Mekong Blues If Thanet in Kent, England is in need of regeneration then the Mekong Delta south of Ho Chi Minh City is in need of the same treatment and some more besides . Music that comes to me as I travel down the Mekong River www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkmQlfOJDk Air on the G-String is August Wilhelmj's arrangement  of the second movement in Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068 ‎ I thought of Bach because I am moved by the places I see and the people I meet. Just intoxicated by them. To this effect. Under Grave Skies: the Mekong Region My Tho Most of the images here are taken in and around My Tho. It was, as is my want, sweltering in the Mekong Delta. It turns out that poor Mekong women often marry...

Chateauneuf-du-pape I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world,  whose margin fades For ever and ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses After stopping at Fiona's in Paris I drove us down here in eight hours.  We stayed in a village just outside Avignon called Bedarrides. We rented a 3 bedroom townhouse with a deep balcony and a roof terrace. It cost £500/$750 a week. The people were so friendly in Bedarrides that they shouted greetings up to us every morning and every evening. Bon jour! Bon soir monsieur! The house came equipped with three bicycles. I may visit again next spring before I travel back to the Far East. Avignon With Dolly and Fiona appreciating Avignon cathedral in the sun Chateauneuf-du-pape village The sun-drenched vineyards we cycled past every day A Chateauneuf label I have a couple of bottles of this Chateau...

Super China After my extraordinary trip to China I am presented with a challenge. How to revisit China again soon. Such was my excitement at being there I have to consider marshalling funds so I can go again. In a more directed way. I have different objectives in mind this time. To visit the Fujian province, the Shaolin mountains, Xiamen. So essentially southern China still but not with the same introductory feel. South-central Kunming Here's how I felt in Luolong Park with Yunnanese people. A variant on Daft Punk's 'Motherboard' with Sebastian Tellier. ‎ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSxuR0tItg That is very, very happy. ‎ Dancing in the park 昆明 Kunming The city has many things to recommend it. The beautiful park at its centre. Dian Chi lake fringed with types of trees I had never seen before. Random bursts of red and fuchsia bougainvillea at roadside. The tangmian, from local cafes. Xi Shan mountain temple. The view ...