I had a lovely weekend in Hanoi two weeks ago after being there for work. I stayed with a fellow work colleague, Mai Anh in a hotel as she had work there the next week.  We ate at the “Fat Lady” which serves snails and beef.  I couldn’t get over how dressed up this lady is, the one chopping the meat. Now I wouldn’t like to meet her in a dark alley!

The next day we went to Bat Trang Ceramic Village.  We took a local bus and there were no issues as I was with a native speaker, thanks Mai Anh:).  We wondered around and I bought some chop sticks and a wind chime.

We caught the bus back and then decided we needed Bun Cha.

It was very popular as you can see and the restaurant took up about half of the side walk of one street.  We then went back to our hotel and rested.  As mentioned before, this tourist thing is very tiring! After our rest we went to meet some colleagues from Habitat Korea for coffee and then I had dinner with them and we wondered around the streets.

There were elections on in Hanoi and here is the polling booth, didn’t look very busy.  Talking to various people, not a lot of people vote here.