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Connla Stokes

48 Hours in any Southeast Asian city, other than the one you (an expat) live in….

~ An insider’s guide to a male expatriate’s conscious and subconscious thoughts as he explores [insert the name of any Southeast Asian city…

Sep 1, 2022

Sep 1, 2022

Phường 19

A year ago, an American expat messaged me on Instagram: “Is Phường 19 in Bình Thạnh your ’hood, too?”

Jun 21, 2021

Phường 19

Jun 21, 2021

The man who leans in ‘real close’

Pandemic, or no pandemic, you guess the man who leans in real close has always leaned in real close.

Oct 26, 2020

The man who leans in ‘real close’

Oct 26, 2020

Our magical, humdrum Hanoi lives

Sometimes I get to thinking about those rare old times of early 21st century Hanoi. How about you, buddy? Nah, I’m not talking about the…

Oct 2, 2020

Our magical, humdrum Hanoi lives

Oct 2, 2020

I am not going to Danang in the morning. No one is.

I am not going to Danang in the morning. No one is. Vietnam’s Most Live-able City™️ is a no-go zone. Because, “COVID-19 flare up.”…

Jul 27, 2020

Jul 27, 2020

Love in the time of highly infectious respiratory diseases

Your father has sent an email. It begins: “You probably saw this but I see the World Health Organisation has issued a global alert warning…

Jan 28, 2020

Love in the time of highly infectious respiratory diseases

Jan 28, 2020

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Dec 9, 2019

Dec 9, 2019

Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?

The year is 2003AD, the month is February; the time just after eleven a.m. You are in a rented house on the non-colonial-side of the…

May 10, 2019

Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?

May 10, 2019

How to live in Hanoi — a dated story

It was 2002.

Dec 26, 2018

Dec 26, 2018

A tightfisted foreigner’s personal history of using lesser known items of currency (coins and…

Do you remember the time coins were introduced to Vietnam? For a very, very short period it felt like ‘something’ for a country with one of…

Oct 1, 2018

Oct 1, 2018

How a misspelling of bánh mì inspired me to save the world with a single Tweet but…

This morning, while writing an email to an editor, I misspelled something.

Sep 14, 2018

Sep 14, 2018

The Shore

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Jul 29, 2017

The Shore

Jul 29, 2017

A tightfisted foreigner’s personal history of using lesser known items of currency (coins and…

Do you remember the time coins were introduced to Vietnam? For a very, very short period it felt like ‘something’ for a country with one of…

May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

Billy McNamara — the unluckiest Hanoi expat on two-wheels in 21st century history (so far anyway)

Do you think there really is a guy somewhere in the world with all the luck? If so, you should have met our old pal from Ennis in county…

May 13, 2015

May 13, 2015

Four Wild and Wonderful Theories on Sweating I Have Heard in Vietnam

1) An expat in Hanoi once told me the secret to not sweating is not drinking water. You see, he proffered, if you’re over-hydrated, you’ll…

Apr 7, 2015

Four Wild and Wonderful Theories on Sweating I Have Heard in Vietnam

Apr 7, 2015

Getting evangelical (or a little overzealous) about street food in Saigon/ Ho Chi Minh City

On assignment for Travel + Leisure in Saigon/ Ho Chi Minh City recently it was hard not to get a little evangelical (or a little…

Mar 17, 2015

Getting evangelical (or a little overzealous) about street food in Saigon/ Ho Chi Minh City

Mar 17, 2015

Love in the Time of Bamboo-Jacuzzis [Tweaked archives: 16/04/2014]

The thought of businesses making bamboo-based products always reminds me of an Englishman who came to Hanoi just after the turn of the…

Mar 11, 2015

Mar 11, 2015

Fantastical Food Related-Tales from Vietnam #1: The gourmet, Californian banh mi comes to town…

The Miso-marinated black cod banh mi shifts in his chair as the plane descends towards Tan Son Nhat Airport. He isn’t nervous like the…

Mar 3, 2015

Mar 3, 2015

From the Department of Barely Documented Personal Histories of English-Speaking Expats in Early…

Jan 15, 2015

Jan 15, 2015

Declan Carmody’s Burning Ambition

For days Declan had been fantasising about out-jesting Victor Hanratty — his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend and one of the best stand-up…

Jan 14, 2015

Declan Carmody’s Burning Ambition

Jan 14, 2015

Connla Stokes

Connla Stokes

All-purpose-writer. Made in Ireland, living in Vietnam. Features: http://t.co/rC7XnVOcKm Short stories: http://t.co/nWsw8PxVF5

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