tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post5129616330528515933..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Old Saigon emerged into beautiful Ho Chi Minh CityHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-56894150234656738782015-09-27T01:16:55.322+10:002015-09-27T01:16:55.322+10:00Thanks Phillip
What you say about the young peopl...Thanks Phillip<br /><br />What you say about the young people of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City sounded counter-intuitive at first. Why would a country devastated by invading armies want to forget its recent past? Millions of their citizens and soldiers were killed. <br /><br />Then I asked some Australian 18 year olds what they thought of Australia's involvement in that immoral war - they didn't know what the Vietnam War was, nor did they know of Australia's involvement. Oh dear :( Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3740026827543487632015-09-27T01:11:36.874+10:002015-09-27T01:11:36.874+10:00Parnassus
I was thinking of EXACTLY that situatio...Parnassus<br /><br />I was thinking of EXACTLY that situation when going back to the French Michelin Tyres Centre in Fulham Road London. The two storeys, made from ferro concrete and brick, were faced with glazed terracotta and filled with Art Nouveau elements. It was large, functional and beautifully decorated.<br /><br />Yes the Bainier Auto Hall had to be expanded, but what a great use of 1920s architecture.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-19614523630776512622015-09-27T01:03:59.323+10:002015-09-27T01:03:59.323+10:00We Travel
I remember the 1965-70 era in Australia...We Travel<br /><br />I remember the 1965-70 era in Australia as modernising, liberating, energetic, political and full of great music. But it was also an era filled with fear and with distrust of Parliament. Especially regarding the Vietnam WarHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-79154969160874816632015-09-27T01:01:31.159+10:002015-09-27T01:01:31.159+10:00Andrew
I too believe the country has come a long ...Andrew<br /><br />I too believe the country has come a long way for tourists in the past 15 years. Saigon was colonised by the French during their long colonial era, so even back before the American bombing, the city looked French and attractive. But the city was very small back then. <br /><br />Now Ho Chi Minh City is HUGE (8 million) and I wonder if the improvements have spread for the locals, as well as the tourists. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-20872924431971412242015-09-26T19:27:24.277+10:002015-09-26T19:27:24.277+10:00The Vietnamese imagination is haunted by a literal...The Vietnamese imagination is haunted by a literal belief in wartime ghosts. The air you breathe here is as heavy with ghosts as it is with humidity. The death toll of troops and civilians is disputed; a figure of a million seems likely, though the Vietnamese government doubles that. Add perhaps two million for the killing fields of Campodia.<br /><br />Yet already the jungles have hidden most of the evidence, and memories are fading. To the young of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the past I am seeking is remote. Shopping is the new ideology.<br /><br />Phillip Adams<br />The Weekend Australian Magazine<br />26th-27th September, 2015The Weekend Australian Magazinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-60069414771019134052015-09-26T19:13:23.574+10:002015-09-26T19:13:23.574+10:00Hello Hels, Imagine a time when car dealerships w...Hello Hels, Imagine a time when car dealerships were built with such quality that they could later be transformed into luxury hotels. I cannot imagine that is the eventual fate for most car dealerships built in recent memory.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-67240496685747639942015-09-26T14:02:21.424+10:002015-09-26T14:02:21.424+10:00I was also in the Vietnam War generation. My broth...I was also in the Vietnam War generation. My brother and I were both fortunate that our birthdays were not pulled out of the barrel.We Travelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-78613192691722546472015-09-26T13:34:18.496+10:002015-09-26T13:34:18.496+10:00War ought not be romanticised but The Rex must hav...War ought not be romanticised but The Rex must have been such a place to be during the war. Our Saigon hotel in 2000 was old and last decorated in the 1960s, complete with built in American car valve radios beside the beds. Of course like everything else in Vietnam back in 2000, they did not work. I think the country has come a long way for tourists in the past 15 years, and hopefully for locals too. Like most large Asian cities, transgender and very effeminate guys are perhaps not seen as desirable but accepted as part of society. Anyway, Vietnam is a very interesting country and I am pleased were saw before it became so geared for tourism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com