Hanoi Night.
Nothing can be better than a travel getaway. As empty nesters we look forward to any long weekend or break to a country to satisfy our travel bug . Our destination for this year Eid holidays was Vietnam. We managed to convince our friends Ananthi and Swami to holiday with us, yet again. We landed at Hanoi airport around midday. The immigration was slow and excruciatingly painful, appearing chaotic in fact, as other passports kept getting head of ours, but once out, the cloudy drizzle with humid air welcomed us. Typical of a place with much rainfall, the greenery was abundant and verdant. The drive from the airport to our hotel in the city rooms was past sleepy villages but we could discern lots of human activity which is always so pleasurable. We passed narrow houses with windows and balconies only on the front face mirroring the map of the nation. Flanked by the South China Sea to its East, land space is a premium. Vast paddy and rice fields could be discerned a...