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Alright everyone, still in Hanoi at the mo and met up with a new group, this part of the trip has been done by a sister agency to the one I booked up with and the itinerary has changed and the first two weeks are either a bore or I've already done it so felt I was just wasting time so I've decided to take a detour for a week to Hong Kong! I leave tomoro mornin then I'll come back to Nam on the 30th to do Sapa and Halong bay which will be decent! Been here in Hanoi nearly a week now and only just startin to get used to crossin the roads it's lethal ha you just gotta walk out and they drive around you just like you would when walking through a crowd and everyone just moves around each other it's mad! When we was out for beers the other night we was sat on the corner of a street on a cross roads and you just sit on little plastic stools pretty much on the road, it's not a pub more of a little market shop where the family live and they have barrels of beer so you just hand ya glass in and they top you up for 5000 dong which is 14p. We was sat chillin when all of a sudden the people serving grabbed us up an started shouting and took our stools away packing them up faster than Del Boy on the market, your allowed to sit on the path with a beer but not on the road so the old bill come along and take their seats away and fine them so they have a look out on the corners of the cross roads to give people the heads up, they drove by slow lookin left and right then drove off so they waited till they went then gave your stools back and said sit down ha but the sneaky fuzz went round the block and came back 5 mins later and caught a beer place opposite out and took all their stools haha was a crease up. Were off in a bit to get some local food from the market to bring back and make spring rolls, guess who has been made group leader of 21 people to ask and barter for the food! The guide geezer has taught us some Vietnamese language and gonna give me dosh and list of what we need and gotta go out with the others and get the ingredients for a spring roll-off laters which will be a larf! I think I forgot to say bout me spring roll making I done in Cambodia that was quality too, made fresh spring rolls and fried, fresh was cool but fried was bangin! The bird there at the home stay showed us how to make one then we had to copy her then we made a load more we was stuffed it was lovely jubbly. Apart from The spring roll making that we gonna be doing here in a bit, its the first thing we've had to do really other than that it's just been a few wasted days and everyone's moanin that their bored so that's why I want to go do somethin else and go me own way for a week till the good stuff starts in Sapa. We get a night train on the Sunday 1st June there so will be cushty. Give ya an update when I'm in Hong Kong phooey! Laters guitar hero
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