Hanoi

…… at the airport we got contacted by our landlord …. he organized a driver and the driver could not locate us…. no wonder as we were negotiating with Vietnam’s border protection officials…. this took us some more time and the driver got nervous 😬.

This is also a reason why Vietnamese callers “The Prussians of Asian”. Vietnamese people are very disciplined and most of the things they tell you really happens.

As we were in Hanoi 10 years ago we tries not doing the same things – so we moved in a Airbnb apartment in the middle of Hanoi Old Town – and had a lot of fun.

Street view – in the third floor sharing the house with 4 Vietnamese families.

Some views from our apartment….

Breakfast on our balcony

Having fun in our main room…

Multiple use of our over the street neighbors…. toilette and shower on the right…. laundry on the balcony ….. and behind the laundry kitchen…… very efficient use of one balcony….

For every non believer – kitchen in the cupboard in action…..

On the other side – another fully equipped kitchen….

Street Business in Hanoi

Most of Hanoi’s Old Town Business is street business – you find everything what you need for your day to day life, handyman, Street cooking, grocery dealers and many more …. mostly on very pragmatic ways on bikes …. scooters…. or just open the front door and start a business ….. nothing has changed to much here in the last 10 years…..

Some nice examples …

The Beer 🍺Street

Believe it or not in Hanoi you find a beer street ….. the main party, eating and drinking street in town. You can choose between a known brand e.g. Heineken, Tuborg, Tiger made in Vietnam etc. or s.th. brewed in the living room of the family to get commercialized on the street….

When we visited Vietnam last time this was our favorite ….. it was served on tap e.g. granny went around the corner and filled up a container to fill up empty glasses …. the scenery was impressive especially as one glass was for CHF 0.20 ….

We hope we can find this kind of tradition again…