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Travel Blogs from Hanoi
Capital times
Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and is often referred to as the ‘Paris of the Orient’. Filled with lakes, tree lined boulevards and French designed villas, this romantic city cuts a distinctly different style of life to that in Saigon.
A visit to the old quarter in Hanoi is a must; comprised of …
Goooood Morning Vietnam!
... completely ignored. We watched some of the locals and we think we have it sussed - basically wait for a lull in the traffic (not that there ever really is one) and walk at a steady and constant pace and the traffic dodges you, I'm telling you you've never had so much fun crossing a road, literally playing with traffic, excellent! Everywhere you turn you get fantastic smells coming from everyone cooking on the streets. When we open our bedroom window (7 floors up) you can even ...
My First Day 'Teaching'.. Words Are Limiting
... ones that seem most able to respond and while Minh loves to laugh and smile and pull at me to do something, I’m not sure he has the ability to make real conscious decisions.
But there is something very curious about Minh as I’m sure my friends Rai, Krisztina and Jie Ma will remember from our first stint there. Minh was tremendously coordinated and was exceptional with a soccer ball… I remember remarking that he easily had the skills ...
Day 9 Hanoi
... restaurant and of course we were the only people who were the non Vietnamese. The waitress suggested seafood spring rolls (gee we hadn't tried those ones & of course spring rolls again) they were full of fresh fish & so different to what we had alreadyf been eating (delicious of course) spicy BBQ pork spare ribs and a whole roast duck (which they didn't think we would get through), but the typical pigs we are there wasn't much left ...
Motorbike or bus???
... the carb, a problem the guy at the garage should have sorted before we picked it up. By now we were pretty tired from trying to sort out all the bike bits and just wanted to get into Laos, so called the garage and argued with the guy to get him to give us our money back. Eventually he took it back and we also managed to take the helmets back with no bother. We decided that we were trying to do too much with too little money and too ...