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Hue is famous for having an old imperial city, it's where the emperors went and talked about stuff of something. We got in after our bike tour and were planning to grab some food and maybe take a stroll to the night market up by the river. The weather had cleared up so we starts off down the street and stopped in at a booking place to decide the best way up to Hanoi. Really didn't fancy another bus and this one would have taken 14 hours!!! The trains run at strange times so we could have got the last one going out at half 4 which would have got us in at half 6... Why not go a little later and get in and a human time?! Plus Friday was our 1 day in Hue so if we had to leave at half 4 it really would be a flying visit. We thought about flying Friday evening for about 2 minutes until he said it would be about £90 so we were almost resigned to taking the ridiculous bus until he said 'well why don't you fly Saturday morning instead?' Turns out if was about £35 just to stay another night and fly the next morning so we jumped on that!! As we came to leave the heavens had opened again and a wander to the night market didn't look like much fun, so we just went for dinner instead. I has been craving pizza, and second to Vietnamese food, Italian places are everywhere. (Spaghetti similar to noodles? Who knows) we had a great pizza and went back to the hostel for bed. We had to force ourselves to stay up past half 8, in fairness sitting on the back of a bike all day was pretty tiring. I had managed to download an app that let me access British tv so I settled down wth an episode of bake off, nice to have a little bit of normality and drifted into an amazing sleep. Happy home stay was very happy The next day we wanted to see the imperial city and there were some tombs a bit further out, we asked the hostel owners the best way to get there and he said they had some lads who could take us on bikes. We have been advised the whole time to avoid bike taxis as they tend to rip you off but given they were recommended we agreed on a price and off we went. There were 2 tombs of previous dynasty emperors which I was expecting to be about 500 years old, the first one was built with French influence (the north seems to have a lot of French stuff) similar lay out to the palaces and stuff, which meant more stairs!! It looks really old but upon reading the info saw that it was built in the 1920's and designed to look old and mossy and broken. Strange idea. The second one was a bigger lay out, all on the flat and had a little lake in the middle; full of German tourists. Quite strange to see little Vietnamese men speaking fluent German. The lads said they'd take us back into town to the citadel and somewhere good for lunch, on the way we went past a number of incense stalls which were beautifully laid out. Otherwise an uneventful trip back and dropped us off near one of the main gates into the citadel, we gave them our agreed price and then felt quite silly quibbling over paying them £7 for the whole morning. The imperial city was a bit strange, the main bit is through a big gate and opposite a big flag tower, so most photos we got have a viet flag waving in the background, very patriotic. There aren't really any maps and no sign posts to say what anything is so we just sort of walked and looked at some buildings. Some of the buildings have really good roof decoration, mosaic and tiling and inside is even better with dragons and gold paint streaked across the ceiling. And then you come outside to the bit in between and its positively shabby, unlike European palaces etc they haven't mown the lawn, they haven't fixed the cement walkways, paint is peeling off the walls. It's clear to see they prioritise the buildings and just don't have the money for the other stuff, shame in a way but then we aren't paying European entry prices so it's something you're quite happy to put up with! The sun was baking that day and I had only really put some cream on my face (don't want that red nose!) so I was looking a little pink when we got towards the end. On the way out some Chinese people were laughing behind us and I caught one of them putting his arm up in the air, next thing I know they have stopped me and are asking for photos because I'm 'so tall', I'm only 5'9" but actually next to these guys that was pretty tall. We worked our way back across the river and found a coffee shop to sit in, mostly for their wifi but also for a cold drink. That evening the weather was great so we walked back up towards the river and in through the night market, I got Viv a great tacky gift which actually is quite sweet but so pointless to own, I love it! We stopped at a few bars on the way and had a drink in each, it was the first place that felt like being back at home, sitting next to the river with the hustle around you and a bridge in the distance, could have been sitting on the south bank. We were stopped again by some students learning English, a couple about 16 who were not quite as advanced as the weird experiences lot but still doing very well. Then a 10 year old who was really good, they obviously follow a sort of script so they started by saying 'excuse me are you busy, may I talk to you for a few minutes, would you like to sit down?' We asked him what he was learning thinking is get an answer like, jobs or hobbies but he came out with pronunciation (pronounced perfectly I might add.) he was asking us which universities we went to and asking for the name of the president of the uni, I'm gonna come home to a letter saying. 'This young man says you will sponsor his 3 year degree at City University, that'll be £30,000 please.' My favourite bit was definitely at the end when he shook my hand and said 'I've had a good dialogue', me too I said and we went to find some nosh. The next day we had arranged a car from our hostel which cost about $10 and took us straight to the airport. Easy peasy 1 hour before, through security (although Jacqui had to chuck her insect repellant, why that specifically I don't know) and we were in Hanoi by midday. Much better than a 14 hour over night bus!!

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