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Our Man in Hanoi
http://www.ourmaninhanoi.com
A Brit from Newcastle, England working on a streetkid project as a volunteer in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Recent Posts
The end of first chapter of the sequel
I’ve always found trips to and from Hanoi’s Noi Bai airport especially poignant. I’ve a hunch that it’s because you’re travelling by car – something I so rarely do here. Instead of being in the middle of the mot...
H*n*i!
I attempted to introduce a Vietnamese friend to The Wire. Thirty seconds in and the f-count was already pretty high and I noticed that it wasn’t impressing. She asked me: “Do people really talk like this?” I thought for a second and...
A new lake
Only in crowded, densely-housed Hanoi could you live 300 yards from a lake and not know about it. In the end I spotted it via Google Maps and learnt it was called Ho Hai Ba. It was just 50 yards off my route to work and on the Sunday morning when I e...
Can Vietnam cope with change?
I had seen and shared the above picture via Facebook. A while later, on a night out, a friend’s Vietnamese wife in her early thirties commented on it. “That’s how it used to be,” she said. “I can remember it like that&#...
Old Quarter fruit cup
Posted in Food and drink, Hanoi, Pics Tagged: food, fruit, old quarter ...
The Wire: Hanoi one day at a time
I had to do something similar to this recently – albeit on a much smaller scale. I moved into the new flat and once I’d set up the laptop, the additional screen, the internet cable and the speakers, there were cables everywhere. I bunche...
