Beeping Hanoi







Hey Vietnam! Howdy! And Ho-leeey-Fuck. beep beepbeeeepbeeeep beep beep tooot toot toot beep toot beeeeep honk honk beep toot honk. Incessant. 24/7. Intense as hell. Wuw. We get ourselves situated in our room and get out to look for some tea. After me and Mash head off for some exploring/drinking while Claire goes back. First stop, some lake, some beer and crazy long times trying to cross the road. Theres 1,000,000 scooters coming at your and no apparent way to make them stop except to step out and hope for the best. Joises, it's like walking through a Mortal Kombat game. We find an ice-cream shop/bar and stop for a drink. Mash keeps going on about some place he can see in the distance, Fang, 'We should go there, it's drawing me in, it's calling me. I keep seeing it lets go there...'. When we are sitting at the ice-cream place he looks over and finds out it's actually called...Fanny. Well done Mash. Fanny. It's actually a dessert shop so we don't go in. But Fanny! Ah ha ahahahaha.

We decide on some random swank looking place cos there's a guy outside tryna get people in. In we go, then Mash, oh dear old Mash, tries to barter...for beer...loudly. Very loudly. Embarrassingly loud. In a bar. I'm trying to explain don't worry to the poor bar guy, and shut Mash up, and only when I've finished paying he realises how loud n shame that scenario was. Oh lordy. The next day we don't do a hell of alot. Go for a mass walk to find Claire a shoemaker, unsuccessful. Lunch, yum. Later on we go to the movies to see Super 8. Random, but normal things are fun too. I liked it. But there were alot of screamers in the theatre tho, get over it n shut up already. Home to sleep, big day tomorrow! Halong Bay! Boat trip! Yuss! Freak yeah. Can't wait for that.

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