Day three: Hanoi

Second day in Hanoi and much rambling about the town; the traffic hasn't got us yet.

Main ramble focused on Temple of Literature, the first university in Hanoi dating from 1070 AD. Each year 3000 started and 8 finish - and I though law school was harsh. And some sort of beating involved. Maybe.

Couldn't qute understand much of it, my Vietnamese not coping well with anything more than (phonetically) "gaaam ern" which is supposed to mean thank you but evokes much laughter among those I try it out on. My education was seriously lacking in this area, although having gone to school in England in the 1980s I am very well up on the Corn Laws and the Schleswig-Holstein Question; thanks for that, Kent County Council.

And so to a change of clothes and some nourishing Bia Hoi.

Oh, forgot about the picture. These are some of the stone tablets recording the names of the graduates from the Temple of Literature from last thousand years. Mounted on the back of stone tortoises. As you'd expect.