Since plane tickets from Beijing to Australia aren't cheap, we decided to make the best of our family visit back to Australia by stopping over in Vietnam. Why Vietnam, you ask? Well, as you know, we're greedy people, and Vietnamese food is just so yummy!! Oh, and of course, we wanted to see the beautiful cultural stuff and scenery, and etc ... yeah, but mainly the food. Alas, we were short on leave for the year, which meant, a super fast, time maximising, sleep minimising, 6 day trip. First stop was Hanoi, capital of Vietnam. The airport was quite a way outside the main city, which meant we were treated to the beautiful green landscape of Vietnam, including rice paddy fields and lots of french-like villas on the way to our hotel. If you weren't aware,
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