Well, you can´t get enough of Hoi An. We took Kaye there for a couple of days and I hope she enjoyed it as much as we did. Beach, wine, drinks and nice food. What more do you need to keep Kaye happy?! (Maybe a golf course)
We stayed at Little Boutique Hotel and Spa. In town for a change. Usually we stay by the beach. I can highly recommend this hotel. Very nice and friendly staff that did everything to help. When we´ve stayed by the beach we have´nt had enough time to explore old town. We wanted to change that by staying in town. After the really good buffe breakfast at the hotel we headed out to An Bang beach (15 min by taxi) and in the afternoon we headed back to town. I was a little worried that the kids would´nt like to stay in town. But the hotel had a nice little pool that did the trick. (We also bribed them with pocket money to spend in town.)
This time I went on my second photo tour with Hoianphototour.com. A late afternoon tour to a small village outside Hoi An. Looked kind of untouched by tourists. And as always Vietnamese people love to be photographed. A good opportunity to practice street photography in the country side. After the village we took the boat back to town for some low light photography on the streets in old town.
This day the guy who owns the tour company (Etienne) had his grand opening of his gallery. We where invited to go there by Pieter the tour guide/teacher. It was very nice and Etienne looked very happy to see us novices coming to his grand opening. Etienne had taken some pretty nice pics. I wish I can get that good.
If you want to see pictures (mine) and read some more, just click on the link "read more" down to your right.
We stayed at Little Boutique Hotel and Spa. In town for a change. Usually we stay by the beach. I can highly recommend this hotel. Very nice and friendly staff that did everything to help. When we´ve stayed by the beach we have´nt had enough time to explore old town. We wanted to change that by staying in town. After the really good buffe breakfast at the hotel we headed out to An Bang beach (15 min by taxi) and in the afternoon we headed back to town. I was a little worried that the kids would´nt like to stay in town. But the hotel had a nice little pool that did the trick. (We also bribed them with pocket money to spend in town.)
This time I went on my second photo tour with Hoianphototour.com. A late afternoon tour to a small village outside Hoi An. Looked kind of untouched by tourists. And as always Vietnamese people love to be photographed. A good opportunity to practice street photography in the country side. After the village we took the boat back to town for some low light photography on the streets in old town.
This day the guy who owns the tour company (Etienne) had his grand opening of his gallery. We where invited to go there by Pieter the tour guide/teacher. It was very nice and Etienne looked very happy to see us novices coming to his grand opening. Etienne had taken some pretty nice pics. I wish I can get that good.
If you want to see pictures (mine) and read some more, just click on the link "read more" down to your right.
My lovely wife, Carol, and her sister Kaye at An Bang beach. This is at La Plage, a small restaurant far right on the beach. Very relaxed place. Love it.
At last - Ruben has overcome his unwillingness to be photographed. He gladly posed for a nice pics during lunch at the beach. My words about him missing pictures of his youth has finally gone through to him.
Ossi looks so tall in his new short haircut.
A lovely evening at Soul Kitchen with a whole bunch of Swedes. Including Erik and Majken.
The Swedish girls having fun at Soul Kitchen, An Bang beach.
Late aftearnoon photo tour - Johan (yes there where a lot of Swedes in Hoi An this time) accompanied me on the tour. He looked very "focused" on the way out to the village.
Late afternoon photo tour - Girl on the field harvesting rice. Tried black and white for a change and it turned out pretty good.
Late afternoon photo tour - Girl in village posing happily in front of the camera.
Late afternoon photo tour - Woman harvesting rice.
Late afternoon photo tour - Old man in the village.
Late afternoon photo tour - On the way back the sunset was very nice and this picture gives you a good idea of what all of us was doing - frantically.
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