Our first morning in Hanoi we were woken by the cities loud speaker system blaring out something incomprehensible to us, never mind we wanted an early start anyway!! So off to breakfast followed by the Lonely Planets walking tour of the old quarter. It was quite an interesting tour and took in parts of the city that we probably wouldn't have seen otherwise, i.e. headstone makers street, tin box street, silk street, I think you get the picture. We saw loads of interesting stuff and to be honest didn't get half as much hassle as anticipated, it was also our induction into crossing roads Vietnamese style.......not easy at first but we soon got the hang of it. Basically you step off the pavement and head for a spot on the opposite side of the road,
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