Tim walks you past the French Customs building, peppered with opium poppy motifs, and the intriguing State Bank of Vietnam, a hybrid of classical architecture and Khmer accents.
Europe's fire sale, which began as the economic crisis forced governments to find innovative ways to plug holes in their dwindling budgets, has reached new heights as ever-more intriguing state assets are touted for sale.
Departs 27 July, £2,395pp excluding flights, 020-7736 3968, wildfrontiers.co.uk Regent Holidays' Classic Turkmenistan 11-day group tour aims to get under the skin of this reclusive and intriguing state.
The first track to be heard from the album was Song for Dan Treacy, which not only namechecks the perennially troubled leader of the Television Personalities, but mimics that band's spindly indie-psych style as well, an intriguing state of affairs given the disaster that ensued when MGMT invited Treacy to support them in Norwich and Oxford a couple of years back.
It is an intriguing state of affairs.
Another intriguing state of protein-like self-assembly is that of nanotubes (NTs), defined here as an elongated nano-object with a definite inner hole.
While the desolate scenery may be moody and intriguing (Bastrop state park, which suffered terrible damage in 2011), our antiheroes are anything but; less Vladimir and Estragon than not-so-super Mario Brothers with their dungarees and caricatured eccentricities.
The pyroelectric effect offers an intriguing solid-state approach for harvesting ambient thermal energy to power distributed networks of sensors and actuators that are remotely located or otherwise difficult to access.
To understand just how rapid take a look at John Kenneth Galbraith's "The New Industrial State", an intriguing portrait of the state of corporate America back in 1967.
It's also one of the most intriguing experiments in state-creation in history.
