I finally managed to meet up with Olly in Hanoi – hoorah!\u00a0 He arrived at\u00a0my guesthouse on his scooter and we went to a bia hoi..\u00a0 Bia hoi are basically outlets here which sell extremely cheap lager which apparently comes straight from the breweries.\u00a0 We then went to Olly’s on his scooter and he showed me around his rather wonderful abode.\u00a0 When we were at Olly’s house there was the start of a storm and it suddenly got very wet.\u00a0 On our journey back into town we managed to get rained on quite impressively.\u00a0 After a few more beers, cocktails and some ketchup with chips (don’t ask I think Olly has something of a tomato fetish) I headed back to my guesthouse.<\/p>\n
I am now staying in Olly’s house which makes a nice change from staying in guest houses I must say.\u00a0 The shower is also somewhat of a godsend and omits more than two drips when you turn it on which is something of a novelty to me.\u00a0 I’ve spent today acquainting myself with Hanoi, or should I say Hanoi acquainting itself with me?!\u00a0 We went for breakfast at this lovely restuarant this morning that overlooks Hoan Kiem Lake, which is in the centre on Hanoi.\u00a0 I am still addicted to the fruit here and may try to cultivate dragon fruit on my return.\u00a0 Yes, I’m sure that will be amazingly successful in the British climate.\u00a0 Having said that it’s raining again here at the moment.\u00a0 I hope this isn’t the future of the weather for my stay in Hanoi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finally managed to meet up with Olly in Hanoi – hoorah!\u00a0 He arrived at\u00a0my guesthouse on his scooter and we went to a bia hoi..\u00a0 Bia hoi are basically outlets here which sell extremely cheap lager which apparently comes straight from the breweries.\u00a0 We then went to Olly’s on his scooter and he showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zelmastrip.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}