Hej and welcome to our Hanoi office, todays two reporters will be Catriona and Julia, I've just been drinking Hanoi budda beer... 
So we flew in to Hanoi late last night and after a hair raising 40 minute taxi drive and a short trek through a building site we were relieved to hear Julia say we had arrived at her house!
What a great place, beer, wine,champagne, chocolate biscuits, crisps, nuts AND a xmas tree with fairy lights.
Santa Claus even managed to find us here...how did he know?? We found two little gift filled stockings at the foot of our bed early this morning. 
Ok, so some of the champagne they brought with them, also the choccie biscuits, and my tree is plastic! The stocking filling was from my shopping trip to Bangkok last week.
We got to work on Christmas dinner.........Julia was the vegetable peeler, prawn cocktail and trifle maker. Prawn cocktail as a starter is a time honoured Christmas day tradition in the Hatch family. The starter is famous for its special cayenne pepper seasoning from the ancient Hatch heirloom pepper tin....unfortunately we did not have this special ingredient but the prawn cocktail still tasted magnificent. 
Jorgen was in charge of stuffing and gravy and I was the chicken seasoner, bread crumb maker, roast potato chef and champagne bottle opener. We really got into the Xmas spirit with our festive head gear and Julia's Christmas cd.
What a team we were, we even found time to go on a short tour of the local area while the chicken and potatoes roasted. A few people found Jorgens fluffy blue antlers funny but the great thing about the Danish is that they just don't give a toss! 
Todays TrakTOOR is a motorcycle, and we found it in the neigbor hood of Julias house in a backyard.
In the next day's we wil continue our reports from Hanoi and Vietnam where we will stay untill after new year, don't miss it everyday on your own computer.
So we flew in to Hanoi late last night and after a hair raising 40 minute taxi drive and a short trek through a building site we were relieved to hear Julia say we had arrived at her house!Welcome to the 4 H's Hotel -Hotel Hatch Home Hanoi.
What a great place, beer, wine,champagne, chocolate biscuits, crisps, nuts AND a xmas tree with fairy lights.Santa Claus even managed to find us here...how did he know?? We found two little gift filled stockings at the foot of our bed early this morning. Ok, so some of the champagne they brought with them, also the choccie biscuits, and my tree is plastic! The stocking filling was from my shopping trip to Bangkok last week.We got to work on Christmas dinner.........Julia was the vegetable peeler, prawn cocktail and trifle maker. Prawn cocktail as a starter is a time honoured Christmas day tradition in the Hatch family. The starter is famous for its special cayenne pepper seasoning from the ancient Hatch heirloom pepper tin....unfortunately we did not have this special ingredient but the prawn cocktail still tasted magnificent. Jorgen was in charge of stuffing and gravy and I was the chicken seasoner, bread crumb maker, roast potato chef and champagne bottle opener. We really got into the Xmas spirit with our festive head gear and Julia's Christmas cd.What a team we were, we even found time to go on a short tour of the local area while the chicken and potatoes roasted. A few people found Jorgens fluffy blue antlers funny but the great thing about the Danish is that they just don't give a toss! Todays TrakTOOR is a motorcycle, and we found it in the neigbor hood of Julias house in a backyard.In the next day's we wil continue our reports from Hanoi and Vietnam where we will stay untill after new year, don't miss it everyday on your own computer.
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