We had planned to take the night train to Hanoi tonight, but we flew here this morning instead because it was almost the same price; we are now in a tiny, rather shop-worn hotel on a tiny, rather shop-worn alley in the very shop-worn Old Quarter. And they mean Old: Hanoi is planning big celebrations next year for the 1,000th anniversary of its founding.
Impressions so far: humid and hot by any temperate standards, but fresh as a daisy compared to Hue or Saigon. We walked around and gawped this afternoon, and sat on the sidewalk on the child-sized plastic chairs the Vietnamese favor while a guy hand-carved personalized ink stamps for A+D.
We will be sight-seeing tomorrow, doing back-to-back tours of Halong Bay and Sapa starting on Thursday, then back here for 4 nights on April 22.
Today marks exactly one month before we are back in Seattle...
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