Dong Do Hotel Hanoi
146 Giang Vo St., Ba Dinh Dist Hanoi, Vietnam
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Bia Hoi in Ha Noi
... had we not discovered it earlier??!!
We went to the train station to secure our place on the train to Hue, we could only get top bunk on the hard sleeper! Nightmare! Nevermind it was only over 1 night.
The Temple of Literature is a lovely spot to wander in the city, full of temples and buildings dedicated to learning, founded by Confucius a really long time ago and now is part of the modern university. We smelt a ...
Organised chaos
... good as lunch but there's enough food for all of us - we had heard rumours that the cheaper tours don't provide adequate food. The girls and I decide to get a bottle of vodka to split between us for the night as it's only sold by the bottle! Once the vodka is drunk it's time for karaoke (which the crew have been trying to make us do since dinner). We dominate the mike whilst trying to get others involved. Three Argentinian girls join us in the fun but they seem to ...
Saying hey to Ho!
... turning around as he was cleaning them looking for approval. At one stage seemed to have some thread and I wasn't sure what he was doing but left him to it. He came up and showed me with pride that he had "fixed" my sole by stitching white thread and then polishing over it with black polish... these are walking shoes so not exactly what I had in mind. I definitely didn't ask him to do that and actually really didn't want him to do it but he was so proud of the job he had done and ...
Chickens, toothpaste, temples, and prisons.
... fact that everything in the bathroom is going to get soaked.
Moving on. I walked out to the Temple of Literature in the late morning and it turned out to be the perfect time to go. The sun had just come out and started to burn off some of the morning haze and the light coming through the trees had a really cool misty quality to it. After walking around, I just sat for a bit and watched the tour groups come through. It made me happy that I ...
Just stay alive (Part II)
... font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">Je oefter man gezwungen war, hier die Strassen zu ueberqueren, desto einfacher und unkomplizierte wurde es.
Dann gings schoen westlich Essen und zwar gab es Pizza.. yummi yummi ;) hahaaa! Die nahmen wir mit zum Hoan Kiem Lake und genossen das leckere Essen mit tollem ...


