Sunday 27th September 2009 to Saturday 03rd October 2009 My first impression of Vietnam, and more specifically Hanoi, was that of vibrancy. The city was teaming, TEAMING, with motorbikes, which raced down narrow streets lined with crumbling mustard-coloured French-style houses and shops, past tiny street-side food stalls surrounded by Vietnamese sitting on miniature stools (like the ones you get in infant school) and tucking into bowls of pho, old women in conical hats carrying baskets of fruit, and policemen idling in chairs (not yet have I once seen a Vietnamese policeman actually looking
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