Here is our last night in Hanoi. “The Violas” invited us to their prom and here is the result! Thank you, it’s been fantastic. Sweet Dung The teacher latin lover…. Our incredible trip companions. I’m so happy we had the opportunity to spend time with them and get to know them better. It’s been great […]
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Best card Daniele ever received
This is the card Daniele received from his students at the end of this month of teaching. I think it is awesome! I personally love the one saying “keep trying to be a good teacher”… Thank you, thank you, thank you FTU people. You definitely made an impact on Daniele and me.
Street food, or just… food
I cannot miss the opportunity to write something about Hanoi food. Let’s start with some Street food. It is tasty, it is extremely cheap, it is traditional, popular and authentic (I guess…) and we loved it. First of all we never got sick… so far, I should write, but I’m pretty confident to say that Hanoi street […]
A Sunday
Daniele’s students were so nice to stroll us around Hanoi for a full day. It was awesome.We went for a fast breakfast close to the university, then the Ethnology Museum (you don’t want to miss this, it is very interesting), a lunch in a local bia hoi just east of Hoan Kiem lake, a taste […]
What we ate
It is new years eve. Tomorrow morning at 8.30am Daniele’s students want to take us out for an Hanoi tour… should we celebrate or go to sleep early? (la seconda che hai detto…) Here is our terrible menu at Pepperoni… (yes we went for dinner in a place called Pepperoni… can you believe it??) At […]
Cooking Class
This time is Harvey who doesn’t feel good… and it is really too bad, because guys, we cooked, oh yes… we cooked some delicious food.We met at Highway4 at 8am in the morning. The cooking class, in fact includes a tour to the market where our guide/translator, Huan, explains us a little a about the […]
Bia Hơi
The cheapest beer in the world is probably this one: it is called Bia Hơi, and it costs something like 15 cents for a 12oz glass.The world Bia means beer and Hơi..well, I guess fresh/cold, even if the litteral translation should be Bia Tuoi. Bia hơi is made fresh every night, it is local, delivered every next morning to […]
Hai Ba Trung to Hoam Kiem (West)
After 10 days of a little discomfort, we decided to move from our first location at the Kinh Do Building to a Studio flat east of Hoam Kiem Lake. We really really love our new location and the studio! The area around Lo Duc was very authentic, and we enjoyed the walk to the center […]
La rivoluzione e’ donna
This happened today (I’m such a great director….) … and then we went to the Museum of The Revolution, and I really enjoyed it …well behaved women never made history… And then this happened…oh yes, fried frog legs in satay sauce…yummy!
Strolling around West Lake
West Lake is the biggest lake of the City of Hanoi. There are so many legends around it. Here some: One legend suggests that West Lake was shaped after the battle between Lac Long Quan and a night-tail fox spirit, that’s why the lake was once called “Fox Corpse Swamp”.Another folk story claimed that original name […]