Back in Hanoi

So, back in Hanoi for the afternoon, before we took the night train to Hue. Time for running around the city again, to see the famous vietnamese water puppet show (which Zeugwart wanted to do!), to find a nice little restaurant with a great balcony for having dinner before we picked up our luggage and went to the "travellers place" again, where we spent the other night with Erin and the others. It didn't take as long as we got our first beer, until we got into chatting with the guys sitting next to us. All coming from Canada - except Brandon who was from Irland.
A lot of Canadians here in Vietnam - didn"t expect that... Anyway, we had time for 3 or 4 beer until leaving for the night train, so enough time for some good laughs.

On the way to the train station, we took out first motorbikes. It was a quite funny picture - little Gaby with her huge backpack on the back of the motorbike. But Zeugwart just saw it a few seconds until Gaby's driver was leaving with her and Zeugwarts driver started to ask for more money. Of course he did not get more money and Zeugwart had to start a walk towards the train station. Funnily enough that it took 5 or more minutes to find a new motorbike driver, and Gaby got a bit nervous waiting at the train station...

The night train (Zeugwarts first night train in asia) was pretty cool! The beds looked ckean, the cabins weren't as small than expected and we had funny neighbours. We shared our cabin with two vietnamese people, a nice middle-aged woman (unfortunately not speaking english) and a not at all speaking guy. But we had a couple of beer and enough to talk about so it wasn't a real problem that we couldn't chat with them :-)

The only problem was, that there was an alarm clock beeping at 6.45 am! And that the nice middle-aged vietnamese woman started chatting on her phone without taking a breath. It took us about one hour to fall asleep again... The next thing Zeugwart remembers is waking up, with the vietnamese woman sitting on her bed..............