Colleen has said a lot, and I will try to add a few details. We could each write a book about what we have seen in a day, and I will add, about what we have seen just from the little balconies on the back and front of our hotel rooms. Like a lot of buildings in Hanoi, our hotel, which is brand new, is only one room wide, about 15', and seven stories tall. Like so much, the brand new is crammed in cheek to jowel with the very old. We have two hotel rooms which comprise the whole of the sixth floor. The back room, with the three guys, looks down into the street which also has the entrance to the hotel. Some of the buildings are quite new, and others, only feet away,
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