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Remember That Time…I Colored My Hair In Vietnam?
Now that we’ve returned home and have settled back into our routine lives again we find it funny how our travel stories keep coming up. Invariably one of us will look at the other and say ‘Remember That Time…’ I thought it would make a good series; a way to tell these small stories that [...]
Continue reading...Scooter Mania
20. April 2010
There is a dull roar that hangs over Vietnam. From north to south, in the highlands and in the delta, in small towns and especially in big cities the inescapable sound of a million scooters fills the air. Scooters are everywhere. People don’t walk anywhere, they just jump on their scooter and ride to where [...]
Continue reading...The American War
13. April 2010
It’s been a while, but when I was younger I had a somewhat re-occurring dream. I grew up in the 80’s during the time of the so-called ‘cold war’ but must have been influenced by war accounts from the second world war. I had an impending sense of doom but it was, strangely, coupled with [...]
Continue reading...Halong Bay
28. March 2010
I’d been looking forward to seeing Halong Bay since we left home. Visions of limestone islands rising up out of the sea seemed, to me, to be one of the quintessential Asian scenes… vibrant green rice paddies, women wearing conical hats, and wrinkled old men being some of the others. We had been warned that [...]
Continue reading...Hidden Hanoi
19. March 2010
Today we took a walking tour of ‘Hidden Hanoi’ and learned how the history, culture and architecture combine to make the Old Quarter of Hanoi so vibrant, mysterious and interesting. The tour started in a hidden cafe…behind a shop, down a lane, through another shop, up the stairs, and up the spiral stairway to a [...]
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Wanna-be expat. Giant Stepper. 
Welcome to OneGiantStep.
I'm Gillian. In 2009 my partner, Jason, and I set out to travel the world for a year.
Now we're looking for something more long term; a place outside of our 'home and native land' to hang our hat; another Giant Step along the path.
Come along as we figure out where to go and how to get there.
31. August 2010
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