Our weekend in Hanoi

We had the weekend off this weekend!

We decided to drive into town and visit Hanoi, what a crazy place, you could almost see the money signs in the locals eyes when we walked past.

We looked like total tourists in our trackies and sneaks

Stylish

 

We met a lovely translator called Trang, her and her friend showed us the real local spots, I couldn't believe this secret wee coffee shop, the coffee was essentially a mousse of egg and condensed milk on top of the most amazing coffee, and we also got served sunflower seeds to munch on.

 

We stayed at a cheap and cheerful hotel where we ended up meeting a few Aussies at breakfast time, four of them were there to celebrate a friends 50th party, and of course we tagged along! We met another Australian couple too. From our humble beginnings at Hanoi Eclipse we ended up at a 5 star hotel sipping cocktails and having cake for Bruce's 50th, we even scored the leftover cake! Cheers again fellas for a fab night.

 Overloading the lift at Sofitel (seriously though, the limit said 6 people and we had 8, the overload light came on)

Cocktail Party - Happy Birthday Bruce!!!!

Leftover cake for breakfast, yummo!

 

We also scoped out a truly legitimate Beef Pho, so far no need to drug up but it looked pretty dodgy

Dude cooking our Pho

 

 

 The markets were also great, we haven't bought too much yet though because we need to practice our bargaining skills, but after a few weeks I hope we can get some good bargains!

 

We also walked around Hoam Kiem Lake in the middle of Hanoi, and across the Red Bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bridge leading into Robyn's gob. Lols.

 

Please also give me ideas on if you want to know anything in particular about our trip, I'm pretty shocking at coming up with ideas so any input is much appreciated!

 

Keep up the emails/messages etc, I'm starting to miss everyone a lot, but the snapchats of your beautiful faces help!