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Saigon 1992

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Part III – Vietnam & Home!

There is only one road which runs along the coast and down to Saigon, Highway 1. We were going to see the destruction the Americans had inflicted on the country with their bombing and their Agents Red, White and Orange but we were also going to see a nation of Read more…

By , 55 years21 May 2025 ago
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Part II – China & Tibet

We were a great curiosity to the Chinese and while waiting it was necessary to adjust to the Chinese way of doing things. The toilets were around the back of any low wall but in China there is always somebody peering at you, and somebody else had always been there Read more…

By , 55 years21 May 2025 ago
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Part I – From Tower Bridge through Russia

Encouraged by three months of escapism and the fascination of motoring successfully from London to Peking and then down to Hong Kong in 1990 we decided to take our Bentley S1 Continental, again overland, to the Far East but this time to Saigon. Where the 1990 motor challenge had its Read more…

By , 55 years21 May 2025 ago
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