http://notacrime.net/wp Caitlin and Gregor's Doings Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:45:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The scanner blog pointed me to the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks yesterday. Fantastic. Mum is a particular hater of poor punctuation. She loves to correct servers in restaurants regarding stray apostrophes on their menu or even their website. http://notacrime.net/wp/interweb/quotations/ I gave the blog a makeover last night. What do you think? I even cloned one of the sheep. http://notacrime.net/wp/edinburgh/new-look/ What would you miss the most if you left home (or your adopted home) for a few years? Any list, for me, would almost certainly lead off with Mexican food. Most of the rest of any list would also be types of food, with a few beers and spirits mixed ... http://notacrime.net/wp/edinburgh/send-mexican-food/ It's over two months since we arrived in Scotland, concluding our trip. We still haven't written a blog post about Singapore and Malaysia, and I don't think we will, so I've included the photos in this post. But here are some thoughts on our trip, with the perspective that comes ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/two-months-on/ The 'anchor' of our trip to SE Asia was a couple of weeks in Adelaide to attend the weddings of Jamie and Gavin, two brothers that are friends of mine from when we were very young. We connected through Kuala Lumpur airport on budget airline AirAsia and headed down to ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/australia/ We gave Cambodia the short shrift on this trip in order to have more time in Vietnam. In retrospect, this was kind of a bad decision as we felt that we spent a little too much time in Vietnam and certainly did not spend enough in Cambodia. As it was, ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/angkor-wat-cambodia-2/ As we were heading down the coast of Vietnam we were trying to figure out whether to go to Nha Trang or Mui Ne. They are both beach towns. Nha Trang is heavily developed, and pitched as a top class tourist resort. Mui Ne has more of a backpacker and ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/phu-quoc-photos/ Saigon holds somewhat mystical proportions for me due to its role in the Vietnam war and thereafter in U.S. popular culture. Much more than Hanoi, Saigon for some reason seemed to represent all of the chaos and foreignness that the war evoked in the American psyche. Maybe it had something ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/still-in-saigon-photos/ When we were planning our trip months ago we read a lot about custom clothes tailoring in Hoi An. We were interested in the idea, (c was very interested) but had heard lots of stories about shoddy work and unhappy customers so were a little worried. As it turned ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/b-lan-the-best-little-tailor-in-hoi-an/ It's a well known fact that people in Vietnam eat dog. In fact, despite the practice being essentially at the level of taboo in the West, other Asian cultures (particularly Korea and China) also enjoy dog meat as part of their traditional and modern cuisine. Needless to say, this fact ... http://notacrime.net/wp/travel/se-asia/canine-cusine/