Dong Do Hotel Hanoi

... Eventually we got up & ready & hit off for breakfast! We found a lovely little cafe beside St.Josephs Catheral. For breakfast, I had waffles & muffins & Broc had Pho & beer, nice! While we were there, the heavens opened & it rained for about 2hrs! it was so heavy, we couldn't leave, good excuse for more beer & juice! to be honest we did damn all for the rest of the day, just getting ourselves sorted with laundry, updating the blog, sussing ...

... given to me. He demanded another 10 dollars making it 20 dollars in total. What's more IO didn't even have the taxi to myself. There were two other Asian guys sitting in the back. I was annoyed as we left the airport. However, I should have been grateful that I even had a cab as by now the line stretched all the way back to the other terminal. <br><br>Within 5 minutes we hit the worst traffic I had ever seen in my life. Motorcycles 8 a breast, cars 2 abreast crammed ...

... Nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton, they have photographs of POWs playing volleyball and basketball, receiving packages filled with razor blades and chewing gum from home and generally looking pretty well fed and happy! Senator John McCain who ran against Obama in the election last year was also imprisoned here.<br><br>That's all the news for now!<br><br>Lucy and Adele xxx<br><br>

... it could be up to 1 hour but it actually took us 15 minutes and so we arrived before the check in was even open! The flight was a bit bumpy and we landed in horrendous pouring rain but managed to find our way to the airport bus for the trip to our hostel which Roger had booked at the airport. The room turned out to be a twin room, very basic, but as we thought we would only be there one night we thought it was adequate while we wait for our reply from Suvanna of OV.<br><br><br><br>

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... dels turistes te un 'dong' (moneda local de Vietnam) per comprar aigua o menjar.<br><br>El primer que sobta al creuar la frontera es que sembla que s'hagi perdut la màgia i l'alegria de la gent de Laos. Els vietnamites son una mica secs i esquerps, de tracte una mica auster i distant, i la primera impressió no es gaire bona, sobretot si un esta avesat als somriures gratuïts de la gent de Laos. He sentit dir a forca turistes que la gent de Vietnam fan el viatge en aquest país ...

... Another thing we'd realised is that we believed we'd be in Hanoi for about four o'clock. We'd looked at the map and thought that we could make the width of Vietnam (not wide at all) in about 4 hours. This was a definite miscommunication between us and the lady at the Phonsovan bus station, and also miscommunication between us and the secondary driver, who we asked 'what time will the bus get to Hanoi?' in our best Vietnamese accent. The bus would eventually ...

... at 8:00 and looks like a street instead of an alley. I had a ham omelette with a large loaf of bread and tea. Bill had scrambled eggs with a large loaf of bread and tea. We used the internet at the hotel after breakfast because it is raining really hard. We decided to head out into the rain when it slowed down. The hotel loaned two umbrellas to us. I had to step into a puddle to get off the sidewalk and onto the street (motorbikes are parked on the ...

... sur l'eau de Hanoi. Très bon spectacle, malgré que les poutchs nont pas tellement accrochés. Trop jeunes encore, il faut croire. Papa et maman ont bien aimé, par contre...... En soirée, souper au Hanoi Garden. Encore, excellent souper. J'ai encore opté pour un met Thai. J'ai un petit penchant pour tout ce qui est lait de noix de coco et Curry......Jusqu'a maintenant, les mets vietnamiens notoires sont le Pho Bo (nouilles en soupe avec boeuf) et des spring rolls frits ...

... to be there and that our 'upgrade fee' went straight into the pocket the staff. We grabbed a cab and headed off to our hotel only to find it all shut up and no light on so we got our cab driver to take us to an eatery. We immediately ordered Pho and tea and scoffed it as we hadn't had anything of any substance to eat since lunchtime yesterday. After cooling our heals for about an hour and a half we decided to make a move and head back to ...