Hanoi is still a bustling area but is a nicer city than HCM. The streets are narrower but our hotel was much nicer - I stole the double bed - Neil got the single. Helps being a dominant female and Neil's much too nice to argue with me haha. We roamed the city - I paid a STUPID amount of money for some paintings - it was expensive at the price she quoted me (I have later discovered) let alone the fact that in my ignorance I gave her the wrong note... 500,000 VND instead of 50,000 in Aussie dollars that's about 28 compared to $3. Needless to say she didn't inform me of my mistake. I will hope that she put it to good use. It was bitterly cold walking around Hanoi but we stopped
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