I flew up to Hanoi on Sunday afternoon and when the plane landed I watched as everyone put on hats, gloves and jackets.  I thought, what is going on, have we landed in Antarctica? Well I found out once I got outside, it was 8 C and it was the coldest day they have had in Hanoi in 35 years!!!!!!!!!

I am off to the field tomorrow, so can’t wait to have a look around and see what the houses are like here.  I have found that the taxi drivers are not as nice as the ones in HCM.

This is a picture of some conduit outside a restaurant we ate at last night.

Well, one good thing about the weather here is that I can have hot chocolates, and this is my view

Just did my first presentation here in Vietnam and it went well I think.  I even needed a translator, however I introduced myself in Vietnamese and asked them what their names were.