But we have not left yet.waiting for my son and his family to pack up.
The owner of the house , a very young Vietnamese woman who works for the French provincial government here , engaged my daughter in law in conversation. They talked loud within earshot, and after being introduced I feigned indifference.
This is how this interesting scenario, at least quizzical to this author , for such a young working woman to hold a multi valued property of some 5 to ten million euros came to such prominence.
Her forebearers probably escaped Vietnam to France, around post 1947, emigrated there and came upon fortunate times, whereas their progeny bought real or illicit capital into the islands.
This here top of the hill multilevel property , scanning the sea line. Past to coast, not being their personal venue, it is obvious that fortune had more than amply smiled on them.
Over half a million Vietnamese died , tens of.thousands of US soldiers , hundred thousand suffering psychological trauma, many French soldiers after the Japanese.abandonment of territory, all in the general framework of the Indochina role in the Communist Internationale.
That Communism’s end with a sigh, is a miracle , In It’s Self.
Last year: in Hanoi, well You’d never know. Felt commaderie with passport agent, well, the early indoctrination was mutually felt.