Your correspondent may have mentioned in a previous missive his aversion to markets. There is an exception to this rule. The absolute highlight of my previous overseas travels has been weekend markets in far flung frontier areas in southern China …
Category: Beers
On the Back of a Cruiser
This correspondent is very fortunate to be spending his weekend on a cruise to nowhere. The Voyager of the Seas was, at the time of its launch, the largest cruise ship in the world. This floating behemoth is 137,000 tons …
Life on Vietnamese streets and Goldmalt Brauhaus
The activity on the streets of Vietnam’s cities is mind boggling. And this is not taking into account the interminable hoardes of motors scooters. It seems every door front and street corner is a business of some form. Many are …
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Bia Hoi – the Hanoi love affair continues
Your Vietnam correspondent’s post today combines both a Hanoi experience and the key botf focus – beer. There are many locally brewed beers available, Bia Hanoi, Beer Saigon, Viet Ha, for example. All are owned by large, mostly overseas conglomerates. …
Double Island Point Lighthouse and My Wife’s Bitter
On my last full day at Rainbow Beach, Tony of Toowoomba arranged a long session at Double Island Point. This involves a 50 minute drive along Freshwater Road to Teewah Beach, a drive north along Teewah Beach and another inland …
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Old Hanoi and Legend Beer
For this post your correspondent is going to put away his inner curmudgeon (to the disappointment of some I’m sure) and try and wax lyrical about old Hanoi. I have now decamped from Saigon to Hanoi and the cities could …
Lake Poona and Schlappeseppel Dunkel
The most famous perched lake in the Rainbow Beach vicinity is Lake McKenzie, which is on Fraser Island. A more accessible, if slightly less spectacular version is Lake Poona. No permits, no 4WD required just a relatively easy 2.1km walk …
Markets, more markets and the Lion Beer Brauhaus
Markets. Hot, cramped, full of cheap crap and vendors poking and prodding you. The mere thought of them gives me the hershey squirts. And this is just those in Balmain in Sydney. Ben Tanh and An Dong markets in Saigon …
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A return to Double Island Point and Cricketers Mid On
A highlight of any visit to Rainbow Beach is a trip to Double Island Point. We’ve written about Double Island Point before and it is a wondrous place. Accessible only by 4WD, it still gets crowded as BCFers know how …
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Hoa Vien Brauhaus and a clip from an AK47
Good friend of the botf, Scrote, would be proud of me today. While visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels I had the pleasure of loosing a clip from an AK47. I am not a gun freak by any measure but there …
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