Full Metal Rucksack

Thursday 25 September 2008

So we went to the Military Museum in Hanoi which was quite interesting, though hampered by the fact that most of the signs were in Vietnamese so it was hard to tell exactly what you were looking at most of the time. However two things were clear. Both the French and the Americans had completely failed to conquer the country in the second half of the twentieth century. Therefore we now have scientific proof that both countries must be pretty lame! (We couldn't see any mention of the Australian involvement, so they missed a trick to show up that country as well!)

Also they had a nice collection of captured American military vehicles, and I took a picture of the good Doctor in front of a Huey helicoptor - the ones used in Apocalypse Now.

The weather by now was pretty wet, and we spent a good couple of hours trying to find the shop we saw the previous day that sold iPod chargers, with UK and Vietnam plugs. But we couldn't find it for love nor money. We decamped to a café for a short while as we waited for the rain to ease, then spent a bit of time in an internet café catching up with things.

We had a group meal with the others in the evening - man I love Vietnamese food - and then killed a few hours with some of the girls in the group having a few beers and a few laughs, before we boarded the train to Hué (pronounced hu-way, as in Howay the lands!)