1000 years old ........................

Dear all

Today we said goodbye to Loas and boarded a flight to the Hanoi, capital city of Vietnam.

The journey was fine, but the real fun started once we landed & we found out that Hanoi was in the middle of its main 10 day celebrations of 1000 existence .................. Great.......

No one wanted to take us into the city, where we had a room already booked.  Once we got there we found that our room had 'gone' and we were moved to some grotty room in their 'sister hotel'! Next we went out to find somewhere for dinner, but the streets were mobbed with people and finding a seat let alone someone to serve you was preety impossible. We found a roof terrace restaurant that was doing a roaring trade for all the bemused 'farangs' (foreigners to you and I ) and we watched the merriment form above.

Following dinner we tried to walk around the lake in the middle of the old quarter, but there were just so many people we just gave up and went back to our room.

Hanoi is busy at the best of time with nearly 4 million inhabitants,who seem to all have a moped! However, it transpired that a further 2 million 'locals' visited for the event, which sort of explains why the little streets of the area became so conjested. They were all pretty much 'promenading' around the area taking in the atmospher of squashed hot people. Not my idea of fun, but what ever does it for people.......

As always thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara