In this blog I will be telling you about our travels in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand from late January to mid-March 2020. These impressions are how I experienced our adventures and reflect my interests, so they talk about the politics, culture and food. You will find stories, photographs and recipes. You can scroll past anything that does not interest you. I have tested all recipes except where I can’t find an essential ingredient, for example green papaya, but in these cases I’ll say where the recipe is untested.

These weeks were the period of significant Covid19 prevalence in Wuhan, China, quickly followed by its southern neighbour Vietnam, then Cambodia, South Korea and the other countries of Southeast Asia. So the low level anxiety about the virus is there in the background but never really got in the way of a fantastic adventure.