Cafe Trung There have been two times in my life that I have consumed egg. Once today and the other in the exact same place back in 2011. My friend Darren laughed some 25 months ago at the cup of traditional egg coffee placed in front of me because it contained my favourite thing (coffee) and most hated (egg). Coming back to Hanoi I knew I would have to visit the same establishment, mainly because it's secret location is amazing and also it had to be something Ta...

Loosing Personal Spacings I hadn't planned to write anything today, how eventful could a 11 hour train journey be back to to Hanoi? Our journey started at 7:30am with a hours transfer back to Loa Cai station. Many people would fit into this mini bus, which would become the theme for the rest of the day. Those little tiny plastic seats become very useful for squeezing an extra 3/4 people in. We had got our hotel to arrange our train travel back to Hanoi - we wo...

B52 bombers and getting to know the locals On my last Hanoi adventure we were greeted with baffled and confused faces whilst trying to track down the downed B52 wreckage hanging out of a lake. I asked Cham about it on Tuesday and she said it was quite far away and you would have to take a motorcycle so I had knocked that idea on the head until I figured out how to get there on foot. It was at least a 40 min stroll away and seemed silly to miss the opportunity to...

Checking Into Hanoi Hilton The best way to explore Hanoi is on your feet and not by taxi (they don't know where they are going as we discovered last time around). Today we visited the Hanoi Cathedral, we assume its French build and Tash thinks it reminds her of Notre Dame, it was locked up though so we went back a good few hours later when they were having mass. I had zero clue what was happening (it was in Vietnamese) but I'm told I roughly follows the same pat...

Post Flight Pre Amble One advantage of returning back to a location you have already been to is that you may understand how things work. The system in Noi Bai airport to get your visa is confusing. You go to one end of a office give them your passport, photos and paperwork. They will give you back whatever they choose to at the time (we kept our forms but everyone else in the queue had handed them over and didn't get them back). You then walk to the other side o...