Viet Nam ... and a Glance at Bangkok

Viet Nam has a very special meaning for me. It's the place where I started to breathe again after years of worries and uncertainties. Where I met unselfish people who eventually became friends. And where I "recharged my batteries" and restarted at full speed the eventful journey of my life.

My love story with Viet Nam began in Da Nang in 1996 as a Consultant in the SCADA/EMS project of PC3, today the Da Nang Power Distribution Company. Subsequently, I returned to Da Nang and went to Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City many times -- usually for business, but sometime just to take a rest, like in 2004 when I escorted Felicia on a trip to Ha Noi, Da Nang and Hoi An.

In June 2013 I went again to Vietnam. Upon arrival in Da Nang, my good friend Tran Anh Thai presented me with a fantastic gift: he came all the way from Ha Noi to be with me during my "farewell visit". Next I went to Hanoi and had what I thought would be "farewell" dinners and lunches with Thai's family and my other Vietnamese friends.

Farewell? Not so fast! Just a few months after I returned to New York, the Power Distribution Company of Ho Chi Minh City retained my consulting services for another SCADA project, and so, more trips to Vietnam are waiting around the corner!

In the meantime, I'm posting a couple of short videos were I merged clips recorded during my 2013 so-to-speak farewell visit with old pictures from my earlier trips to Ha Noi, Da Nang, Hoi An and Bangkok, including those with Felicia. Just click on any video player below and you’ll be with us in those enchanted places.

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