Vietnam Travelling Diary π»π³ [992]
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
3h 9m
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8 chapters
transcribed 3 months ago
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. I am absolutely boiling. It's extremely hot here. We're in the middle of a weird heat wave. I'm recording this episode right at the end of May 2026. And we're experiencing a sort of mad heat wave. The hottest temperatures ever for May in this part of the world. It's something like 35 degrees today or something. 35 degrees feels like 37, 38. I've never really understood that whole feels like temperature. For me, if it feels like 38, it's 38. as far as I'm concerned. But anyway, never mind that. It's not going to stop me from recording this brand new episode here for you today. And I'm going to start reading from my PDF notes that I've prepared.
I'm going to start doing that right now so we can get into it. Here we go. So this is going to be a long and rambling monologue about a backpacking trip I did in Vietnam 16 years ago in another life. I hope you enjoy listening to it and spending some time immersed in English while I talk to you. I'll probably explain bits of English as I go, but the main thing with this, like with most of my podcast episodes, is that you simply listen to a lot of spoken English, which I think is an important part of the learning process. In the opening part of this episode, I'm reading from notes I wrote earlier. But for the rest of the episode, I'll be reading from my old paper notebook where I wrote my travelling diary all those years ago.
I'll probably take moments to ramble about this and that as we go on this trip down memory lane. So years ago, I went backpacking around Vietnam, which is a popular backpacking destination, certainly for people in my country. Shout out to you if you've also been travelling in Vietnam. Have you ever travelled around Vietnam? If you have, then a special shout out for you. And of course, a very extra special shout out if you are actually from Vietnam. Hello, I would... greet every single Vietnamese person listening to this in Vietnamese, but I'm afraid I'm not really capable of doing that. I tried to find out what it was, and it was beyond me. But anyway, I want to say hello to all the people of Vietnam who happen to be listening to this episode.
Get in the comments section if you are Vietnamese. So, backpacking. Yes, I went backpacking around Vietnam. Now, backpacking, just in case you don't know, is when you travel around a country with a backpack on your back... carrying all your stuff and unlike a normal holiday when you might stay in the same place more or less for the whole time or rent a car perhaps backpacking is a form of travelling which is cheaper less planned in advance and involves a lot of moving around and having adventures meeting people as you go, travelling any way you can on buses, hitching rides with people, riding on crowded trains and generally making it all up as you go along. So that's backpacking, right? Have you ever gone backpacking?
Is that a thing that a lot of people do where you are from? And have you ever been backpacking in Vietnam? So the episode today will include details of my trip, where I went, what I saw, what I did, but also various introspective tangents about what was in my head at that particular time in my life, as well as digressions into these things. Some mini lessons about the English that we use in presentations. The English that we use while travelling. Various bits of stand-up comedy material I was writing at the time, which found their way into my diary. A couple of mini movie reviews, because I watched a few movies during my trip and wrote little reviews of them. and various other bits and pieces.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00β7:25
2
How does the host describe their experience of backpacking in Vietnam?
7:25β59:41
3
What reflections does the host share about traveling alone?
59:41β1:01:57
4
What insights does the host provide about their diary writing during the trip?
1:01:57β1:40:28
5
What were the first impressions of Hue upon arrival?
1:40:28β1:40:47
6
How did the narrator experience local transportation and grifting in Hue?
1:40:47β1:41:20
7
What were the highlights of the day spent in Hue?
1:41:20β1:43:28
8
What reflections does the narrator have about loneliness and travel?
1:43:28β3:09:15
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