Hoang Hoa Tham street, where Brendon and I live, has had major road works halfway along it ever since we arrived. It causes us quite a bit of inconvenience as it’s a major arterial road and we have to travel a couple of kilometres out of our way whenever we want to get into the [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Old Hanoi
Posted in Culture, Hanoi on July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The great Hanoi flood of 2010
Posted in Hanoi on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday morning Hanoians woke up to dark skies and little idea of the chaos that awaited. Before 7am the rain started. Brendon left at 8am in pouring rain as he had to teach a class at 8.30am. I waited, hoping the rain would abate but left at 8.30am to make a 9.00am meeting. In [...]
The perfect Hanoi summertime cocktail
Posted in Food and drink, Hanoi on July 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Hanoi is in the grips of a really hot summer with temperatures at or over 40 degrees and nights sitting on 30. The favourite summer drink of Hanoians is mia da (sugar cane juice with ice), and vendors have popped up on every street corner. To prepare it, the outside layer of the sugar cane [...]
lunch with Class 15
Posted in Food and drink, KOTO on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
KOTO’s class 15 recently finished their formal training, and now are onto the work experience component of their training. To celebrate, and after much pestering on their part, Brendon invited them around for lunch at our place on Sunday. Knowing the Vietnamese penchant for an early lunch we were expecting the guests to sooner rather [...]
Hoi An
Posted in Travel on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our friend from New York, Jono, and his girlfriend Meryl, came to visit last week and we had a great time showing off Hanoi to another set of visitors. Hanoi was extremely hot – we even had some nearly record-breaking days of 40 degrees, coupled with the ever-present humidity. One particularly hot afternoon was spent [...]
