Viet Fun Hotel Hanoi

Hanoi: 26 February, 3-7 March Our first day in Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi, is definitely one to forget, but it wasn't the city's fault as I had caught a stomach bug in Thailand. Let's just say Fiona had her work cut out for her on the day we travelled from Bankok to Hanoi. We had a 6am flight and at about 12am I work up with a bad case of "Tonsai Tummy"! The next 24 hours I spent losing a lot of liquids!! Thank goodness my beautiful wife was there to take care of me as I was hunched over i...

Ellen and I were sitting at the computer in our hotel lobby in Hanoi's old quarter trying to plan our time in Fiji when Mahn, the hotel owner approached. "You hear 'bout Saddam Hussein?" he asked in badly broken English. "Yes" I replied as Ellen continued to type. "America kill many our people." he then said. Ellen stopped typing. We both looked up at Mahn. He was the first Vietnamese person to make mention of the Vietnam war. In a hand severing motion, Mahn continued "Many Vietnam baby born,...

I was in Hanoi twice. Once when I arrived from Hue and once after I returned from Halong Bay.

In Hanoi, (and in Saigon) I saw war museums, prisons, the day and night street markets, beautiful architecture, and narrow streets with character, and full of characters.

Old men sat around drinking Vietnamese tea or playing cards while women in their pointy sun hats gathered around, sitting on baskets talking and laughing. Sometimes as they sat and chatted, they would be peeling some ...

Hi everyone I have at last found time to up date the blog. Having left Hoi An I traveled to the old Nyuyen dynasty capital of Hue, a journey of about four hours north. For the first time since I left the UK I encountered bad weather, when I reached Hue it was overcast and a light rain was falling. This was to be the weather patten for the duration of my stay so my view my be a bit cloudy on what Hue has to offer. In fact what Hue has to offer is very little, there is the old Imperial Citadel ...

Up early, taxi to the airport, Vietnam airway's flight to Hanoi, Vietnam airways bus to old town Hanoi... CHANGE OF PLANS. Our flight to Hanoi was pleasant overall. Though, for the second time in a row: flight attendants have told beth and I that they were out of the 2nd option for a meal, and served us the weird gruel looking slop that no one else wanted; and then served the "unavailable" option to the row right behind us. This time i said something... and miraculously they found two of the ...