Hanoi, Vietnam Day 13

Today was our last morning in Hanoi before finally making our way down South to Hội An the city again! During our last morning in Hanoi we caught up with our friends to say goodbye and decided to go for a wander around some of the shops.

As we were walking down one of the streets a crouched down man started pointing at the floor near Alfie's left foot, all of a sudden this guy then took Alfie's flip flop off and started fixing it with superglue, adding an extra layer of black material to the bottom of his white flip flop without even asking. With Alfie still standing in the middle of the street with one flip flop on wondering what on earth is going on we started to tell the guy that we didn't ask for this and needed the flip flop back before he finished fixing the first shoe as it was extremely hot and Alfie's flip flops originally cost around £5. He then asked for the other one and by this point we decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and asked how much it would be (expecting it to only be 30,000 Dong - equivalent to £1) however, this wasn't the case and the very ballsy man asked for 250,000 Vietnamese Dong which is equivalent to £8.20 - oh my, Alf has been conned. After telling him over and over again we didn't ask for it and will only be giving him 30,000 he got quite angry and started making strange noises whilst putting the middle finger up at us - lovely.

After lunch (Check out Meal 18 on our eat page) we wandered around Hanoi taking it all in before we left that afternoon. We saw a family of six who owned a meat business cutting up a pig (if you look closely at the picture you can see the snout) which was definitely quite surreal considering the 8-10 year old girl was so involved seeing it as a normal day to day chore where as so many kids around the world these days have their heads stuck in the latest technology.

Later on we rushed to get on our sleeping bus for 7:30pm which actually didn't arrive until 9pm due to the rain and the Night Market. The sleeping buses were unlike anything we have seen on the roads before, the 'beds' were sort of like reclining chairs that reclined to about 70 per cent and they were designed like bunk beds across the bus to fit more people in. Alfie and I were lucky enough to find a double spot together at the end of the bus where we attempted to relax and get some sleep before arriving at 7am tomorrow morning in Hội An.

Ciao Hanoi!