The exam's been and gone - only got to wait til February for the result!
After a lovely lunch, it was off to the airport to board a flight to Hanoi. It's only an hour and a half's flight, so it's an ideal long weekend break. Lovely old French colonial buildings abound and the Old Quarter is full of motorbikes buzzing around. In fact, the good people of Hanoi seem capable of living their lives on vespa-style motorbikes: a family of four seems to fit snuggly and eating and sleeping are easily accommodated on any journey.
The food is wonderful, plentiful and cheap. We went to one lovely restaurant in particular which took us on a 12 course spice journey for about 25 dollars each.
The museums were genius with their unmitigated bias. Undoubtedly, the French did not cover themselves in glory, but even the introduction of a legal system by the French was frowned upon. The history museum demonstrated the advance of spectacular progress up to 1945, it appears that the Vietnamese didn't suffer a single reverse in the whole period covered because they fought so heroically against the French in particular. The revolution museum covered everything since 1945, which was an equally successful period you'll be pleased to hear. I didn't see an explanation for all the Vietnamese faces in the pictures of French officers and prison guards - that doesn't quite fit the narrative.
After a lovely lunch, it was off to the airport to board a flight to Hanoi. It's only an hour and a half's flight, so it's an ideal long weekend break. Lovely old French colonial buildings abound and the Old Quarter is full of motorbikes buzzing around. In fact, the good people of Hanoi seem capable of living their lives on vespa-style motorbikes: a family of four seems to fit snuggly and eating and sleeping are easily accommodated on any journey.
The food is wonderful, plentiful and cheap. We went to one lovely restaurant in particular which took us on a 12 course spice journey for about 25 dollars each.
The museums were genius with their unmitigated bias. Undoubtedly, the French did not cover themselves in glory, but even the introduction of a legal system by the French was frowned upon. The history museum demonstrated the advance of spectacular progress up to 1945, it appears that the Vietnamese didn't suffer a single reverse in the whole period covered because they fought so heroically against the French in particular. The revolution museum covered everything since 1945, which was an equally successful period you'll be pleased to hear. I didn't see an explanation for all the Vietnamese faces in the pictures of French officers and prison guards - that doesn't quite fit the narrative.
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