Hanoi joy

It’s a warm night in Hanoi and we’re eating coconut ice-cream on the steps of the opera house, watching people stream through the old building’s gates after a performance by the Vietnam National Symphony Or...

Off the beaten slope

It was a sign of good things to come – Swiss hospitality less than an hour after arriving, courtesy of a kindly stranger on the train offering to share his Toblerone. In search of a tranquil Alpine retreat,...