2025 – Vietnam’s big year of anniversaries
Hung King Temple, Saigon © Mark Bowyer If you’re travelling to Vietnam in 2025, you’ll be colliding with some big anniversaries in Vietnam’s history. Big events in Vietnam’s twentieth century history have a strange habit of occurring in years that end in 5. So 2025 is a year packed with anniversaries. The United States has […]
The Quiet American still captivates history-minded travellers in Vietnam
The Quiet American 1966 cover © Mark Bowyer One of the many rewards of our recent Vietnam by the Book tour, was rereading Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American is one of three books I used to create our Vietnam by the Book, 16 day tour. So I was very pleased […]
The Fatal Shore – Australia by the Book, our new history tour coming in 2024
Sydney’s World Heritage Hyde Park Barracks © Mark Bowyer We’re putting the finishing touches on our first long Australian tour, The Fatal Shore – Australia by the Book. In 1988, I left Australia for the first time. It was the bicentenary of British colonisation. Sydney threw a huge party. I flew out in June for […]