It did not stop raining since I came to Hanoi, not to worry though
there are different kinds of rain. Mostly it ranges from heavy rain to
torrential rain, heavy rain seems okay.
But after 5 hours of
torrential rain yesterday, things took a turn for the murky side. My
first flood arrived and we were up to our knees in Shit. I sat eating a
late breakfast for 30 minutes, look outside and the street was awash
with 3 feet of sewage.
I stressed a while about how I was going
to meet Sonia. But as the guy sitting next to me pointed out, "a good
time for a beer." So because I my medicaton, I had a bottle of water
and watched the world and his waste go by.
Finally for 30
minutes it became light rain and the flooded street dryed up enough to
take a moped taxi to Airport mini bus. Where I met Emielo, who's
picture you can see. As he discribed him self, he looks and sounds like
a columbian drug cartel leader. If you get into trouble he is the man
to be next to. I spent my whole afternoon and a good part of the
evening listening to him. The back of my neck hurt much from laughing
so hard.
So finally after about only 6 hours wait I met up with
Sonia. Actually she was late through no fault of her own, just a
delayed flight.
So we took the bus home, and waited only 30
minutes to get back into a nicely flooded Hanoi. Don't worry it looks
just like Vienna. Trouble is yet the Vietnamese have not started
selling or hiring Gondolas.
Check out the new photos and a short video.
