"I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam... The colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London. They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes, but the rest has got to be lived. The smell: that's the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from. But at night, there's a breeze."
Voiceover from (Phillip Noyce's quite splendid film of the Graham Greene novel) The Quiet American.
Shots are from Saigon and Hoi An. Hanoi and other areas of VN await... © Andrew Haig 2008.
