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My name is Raymond.
i'm from Nieuwegein (Utrecht ) it's about 40km from Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
I'm married to a Vietnamese girl she's called Trang.

I met her in 2002, her uncle is a very good friend of my.
One day i was with my friend watching some homevideo's of vietnam.

There i saw her, so i asked here adress and i wrote a letter.
after a few weeks i received a letter back and since then we e-mailed and chat every day.

After a few months i wanted to meet her face to face and so i arranged a ticket to the Netherlands.
She arrived in december 2002 and stayed until begin march 2003.

then she went home and i did the paperwork to get her permanent in the Netherlands.3 months later was every thing complete.

So i went to Vietnam for the first time to pick up Trang.
i spend there 4 weeks and went back to the Netherlands.

2005 we went back to my family in law and prepared the wedding.
the wedding date 01-16-2005.

2 minutes in Saigon

here we are just arrived in Vietnam.
my mother and Father in law where already waiting for 3 hours.
al we have to do now is go in to the taxi and we are home in 30 minutes.

my father in law rented a minivan because the 2 brothers,sister and girlfriend of my brother in law are also waiting for us at the airport.
so we went home.
and i felled home all the noise of the motorbike's cars many people and it was hot.
when we got home many people in the street where also waiting for us because the also missed Trang.
i liked that very mutch all those kind people there....mmm....

Thu Trang

the next day we went with the whole family to the Metro (that is a big warehouse) to do some shopping for example mik,cheese,soap well everything you need.
after that we had some lunch at Thu Trang's place (this name is just like my wife's name)
we had "pho" that is a nuddelsoup.
and we had 'nuoc mia' to drink that is from bamboo.
the person who is drinking is the jonger brother of Trang he's called Phuong.

nuoc mia

here you can see that they sell the 'nuoc mia'
the press the bamboo and the water is remainig.
the bamboo will be dried and the can start up a fire with it.

this is the normal way to go from point A to point B in Vietnam.
there are about 8000.000 people in Saigon.
when the all drive a care then you have a big problem.
so many people drive's a motorcycle.

the back of Benh Thanh market

when you are in Saigon you have to go to the Ben Thanh market.
everybody take's pictiures from the front well i have one from the back of the market.

in Vietnam the give there houses the most different colllers as you can see here.