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Buffalo Buffalo
... is the best since our wedding day. I follow with a mango bread and butter pudding whilst Shane has a ginger and lemongrass creme brûlée. Again we are not disappointed by the food, Bun comes up trumps again! In the evening we are having dinner with a local family, a friend of Buns. They live about 10 minutes from the centre of town in a fishing village on the edge of the water. We are shown the different types of boats which fish from 1 day to 1 ...
Day 18
... set! After dinner we took a taxi to the main shopping centre in Hanoi called the Vincom Xentre where there was a large cinema at the top. We had all been desperate to go to the cinema when we had been in Hue but it was only showing Vietnamese films which was not exactly ideal! Luckily the Vincom cinema in Hanoi was showing the new twilight film so we watched that! I was really hoping the cinema was going to be completely different to cinemas in the UK in someway but it really ...
Dishonest taxi drivers -- BEWARE!
... of us spoke the other's language, he knew what I was getting at. Upon my return to my hotel, same thing. When I started yelling at him, he then quickly remembered how to get to my destination. Again, I paid him only what the tour books said would have been the fare for a legitimate ride, which was again $2. I did get nice scenic rides out of it, but it wasn't what I wanted. Taxi drivers -- don't f**k with me!
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Hanoi-ing taxi drivers (by Ben)
... but then the price started to climb and we wondered if we had actually been a bit premature in assuming the last taxi was a scam! We were soon on the street where our hotel was and at this stage the fare was around 40,000D ($2), however, after a quick glance out the window and back to the meter, it had magically jumped to 96,000! Needless to say we had him stop there and then (which by chance was outside our hotel anyway). I suppose ...