the Hanoi dairy -last day in Vietnam

Dear dairy and dear Vietnam; we will come back.

Well, according to Patricia Schultz's bestseller: "1000 places to see before you die" we can now tick another 3. Ha Long Bay, The french quater and the old quater of Hanoi. Yet will there be a lot of other places worth seeing in Vietnam and not only to tick them off a list.

No Vietnam is not only worth visiting for some places on a bestsellers list, it is also worth visiting because of it's people, it's culture and because it still is something different to anything else seen in a world being more and more alike. I mean; how often will you be in the town center of any Capitol without seeing the names of all the world's big famours brands bend in neon above your head alighten your way, or when have you ever thought that the traffic in central London, Berlin or Paris is a boring piece of cake to deal with.

So, What are we going to do on this our last day in Hanoi? Well I think we will do all the things we didn't do until now or the things we sort of posponed because something else came up, like going to the Art Museum, the War Museum or stuff like that, but I guess we will never really know because you always find something unexpected on your way through Hanoi, like the other day at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, where we were offered a ride on a bike by a guy, who then as we resisted, asked Julia if he could be her husband.Today's TrakToor:

At the beginning I felt a bit homesick when i saw them again; the good old east german W50 and L60 trucks which run on the streeets here in huge numbers. Infact German is a widespraed foreign language spoken here, and it has out numbered the french speaking part of the Vietnamese, and has to do with the relations betwenn the former DDR and Vietnam.