mickan in world - Honneybees in Hanoi

So, Tet is getting on my nerves a fair bit now. i've spent three days in Hanoi and I've seen less then nothing. "Sorry Lady, closed. Happy New Year!". Well, I guess the Vietnamese have deserved it, they work in 24-hour shifts the rest of the year. But I'm still grumpy. On top of all of this it's raining; first time sinse Koh Samui. But I guess it's quite nice in a way. Nice and refreshing.

I had a good time anyhow. You always find something else to do. I've spent a lot of time with the Southafrican and Zimbabwean couple (I say couple, but they were only friends, very clear on that). Really nice people; we had a great time over luches, walks, coffees and dinners.

Today I actually had a bit of an adventure. I met a Vietnamese guy at the restaurant where I had lunch. He was studying to be a tourist guide and he asked me if i wanted a litle tour of town. It was an offer I couldn't refuse; so I didn't (refuse) and he ended up taking me to The Snake Village (I write it in captive letters just because it sounds so cool; The Snake Village). And we enjoyed a meal consisting of stir-fried snake, snake springrolls, snake risewine (you know the brown bottles you see with kobras in them) and he also treated me to some local delicases which included honeybee risewine (with bees in it, but maybe you got that) and ginseng risewine. Of all those, surprisingly enough, it was the ginseng risewine which tasted the worst. Bla! The snake though was actually quite tasty.

Tomorrow I'm leaving Hanoi for Sapa, in the far north west corner of Vietnam. I have a 12 hour hard seat, no AC trainride to look forward to (thank you Tet! No tickets to either fast trains or soft seats). It will be an adventure though!
Another adventure was trying to find some fod for the jerney; finally I managed to scrape up three baguettes, two cans of tuna and some bananas to cover my three meals. Haha, did I mention that I have to get up at 5 am tomorow to catch the train at 6am? Now don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining; finally something to satisfy my urge for some real hardcore travelling. I'm rolling up my sleves, be sure.

Well, I'll see tomorrow how I feel. I have a feelings my buttocks wil hate me, but what do you do?

Be safe now my darlings!