Tomorrow we've booked a local tour, with a car and tour guide to accompany us, northeast of Hanoi for the day. We'll be visiting a craft village and stopping where we can to talk to a few farmers and do some filming.
We've also now made contact with my former MPhil student, Mao, from my days as a Senior Research Fellow at University of Waikato. We'll be heading north of Hanoi, to Thai Nguyen, on the weekend and doing some things there for a couple of days. So things are starting to move again.
It's been great to have some time in Hanoi, not just to rest but also to share the experience of this wonderful city with Karen, Lena and Alice. They've now seen where the many little presents came from when I came here in the 1995-2000 period as part of a development assistance project. They also now understand what I meant by the traffic here being like a river. The number one rule is to not try and rush across the road. You step out when there is a bit of a gap and let the traffic move around you as you cross. A little more caution is needed now with more cars than in the past.
We've also now made contact with my former MPhil student, Mao, from my days as a Senior Research Fellow at University of Waikato. We'll be heading north of Hanoi, to Thai Nguyen, on the weekend and doing some things there for a couple of days. So things are starting to move again.
It's been great to have some time in Hanoi, not just to rest but also to share the experience of this wonderful city with Karen, Lena and Alice. They've now seen where the many little presents came from when I came here in the 1995-2000 period as part of a development assistance project. They also now understand what I meant by the traffic here being like a river. The number one rule is to not try and rush across the road. You step out when there is a bit of a gap and let the traffic move around you as you cross. A little more caution is needed now with more cars than in the past.
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