Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam with approx 5 million inhabitants, the same population as the whole of Ireland, was where we spent 3 days. 5 million is a lot of people, and to me is feels like they all have motorbikes! As that is my lasting impression of Hanoi, motorbikes. From the moment you wake up in the morning all you can hear is the constant beeeeeeping, all day long. I think the city is made for bikes and not people, really. There are two story motorbike parks, all the streets have ramps so you can push your bike on the footpath, some buildings even have ramps so you can bring your motorbike inside. I don’t even know why they have footpaths at all, cos there not for feet, they are for wheels. Walking along in
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