HANOI, VIETNAM

The third day of our tour was a little anticlimactic, as it consisted almost entirely of our return to Hanoi--first via little basket-boat, then medium-sized boat, then big boat, then a van that took us back to the city. I have to say that I did enjoy the trip on the whole, although our guide was pretty useless and had an infuriating habit of talking circles around every question we asked him without ever managing to answer it. And the food could have been better. Ah well. Perhaps the most enjoyable thing for me was hanging out with Daniel and Pia, and talking with them about everything from their industrial-coating business to politics and life in Australia vs. America. Lovely people, they are.

A word of warning: I discovered tonight in Hanoi when ordering "sausage pizza" that this could very well mean Vienna sausages. Ugh.