This travel story within the realm of poetry, the indoor adventure, intimate ballad. Jean-Luc Coatalem journey in the footsteps of his grandfather Camille, a lieutenant in the colonial infantry 1930. Alone, the author travels Vietnam as encounters: Saigon, Dalat, Can Tho, Hue, Hanoi, Halong. .. Jean-Luc Coatalem brilliantly navigates between humor and nostalgia. His thoughts, stories, anecdotes of his journey succeed, humor loans and punctuated with literary references. A story to read for the pleasure of words, pictures, sounds and smells of this distant and warm country ... Excerpt: "I cross. A dragonfly with me. The storm will invade everything. Drops will crackle with grapeshot. Sidewalks down houses six barbers which mirrors my return fragmented image and already blurred. And in the reflection cross ice and look for motorcyclists, the package of "Remembrance" in the pocket, the entire Vietnam staring at me ... "
