We really like Hanoi! In just a few days we have seen a million fascinating things. One of my favorite sights was a woman carrying an entire restaurant on her shoulders: a tiny stove, four tiny stools, a small cooler and some baskets of food. Tonight, for New Year's Eve, we are headed out for what promises to be a delicious Vietnamese meal - the menu looks out of this world! Sage let me do some window shopping today. It turns out that Hanoi is very fashionable, and that as well as being a major center of clothing production for the world, it has an exciting boutique and crafty clothing scene. We are staying in a super funky place that is down an alley and among many tiny apartments, with an open patio on the ground floor and a tiny cinema house. To our disappointment the cinema is closed for the holidays - but nonetheless the cool movie posters mixed with the sounds of cooking, cleaning, and informal industry, etc. make for excellent ambiance. Tomorrow we are headed for a tour of two bays, which includes sleeping on a boat, kayaking and riding bikes. We also get to cook with and stay with a local family. The pictures show fried butterfly larva, which makes me a little nervous, but we are here for adventure, and we are up to the challenge! We want to wish you all a wonderful New Year and please remember to keep in touch - we especially love comments to our posts!
I think fried larva is a good thing to try for the new year..... you've already ingested amoebas?! I had roasted pig for new years eve but some one got the eyes before I could...drats.
ReplyDeleteTravis and i were going to go to the party world pizza was putting on - free pizza and beer in their funky fun ID space, but opted to do nothing at home, however tony and erica brought amazing treats - oysters, smoked salmon, foir gras, special cheese etc etc and real champagne, thanks tony, so we had a feast and then we played mexican train dominoes with ramona and then annie and alex and shannon came over in a big whirlwind of cleverness and then we struggled to stay awake until midnight. love you. xo h
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