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Excellent hotel Nice living area Large dining area Two bedrooms Two baths Kitchen with laundry Great views of Hanoi Pool, tennis courts, etc. |
Living Room |
Dining Area |
Second Bedroom |
Master Bedroom |
View of Office Tower Next Door |
Kitchen |
Laundry |
View from Pool area |
Pool |
Pool |
Back Porch |
No cars |
Typical traffic |
| The weather this time of year is mild with temperatures in the 70's. Humidity is fairly low and comfortable. The sky is very hazy, not sure if it is fog, water vapor, pollution or what. |
The city |
| The Somerset Hotel was constructed on the site of the former Hoa Lo prison. Known mostly as the "Hanoi Hilton", an infamous prison last used to house US POWs from the Vietnam War. Part of the prison remains as a museum. | Built by the French in 1896, the prison was originally intended to hold 450 inmates. Records indicate that at times there were close to 2000 prisoners inside. |
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Note the broken glass and electrified wire atop the walls CLICK HERE FOR MORE PICTURES |
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way to the Cau Giay Orphanage tomeet our new daughter. |
Like most of Asia, the typical mode of transportation is the motorbike although there are still many bicycles in use. Car and motorbike drivers constantly honk at each other and the cyclists, as a warning or to say "move over". No one seems to listen. |
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Nguyen Thi Ly ("win tee lee") and talk things over with her. |
If you have some time and a fast internet connection, you can view our first meeting with Emily by clicking HERE |
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Bobo from IMH |
Dr. Quy at the Orphanage (it's really called the Cau Giay Center for Orphaned and Malnourished Children) |
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Tom from Toronto meets his daughter |
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| Danny
and Tami from Decatur
meet their son. |
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| This is the Justice Department where we signed all remaining Vietnamese documents required to complete the adoption. | |
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«-"Emotion
CyberNet Cafe", our primary link to the outside world. It is a typical
bandwidth starved operation with about 20 systems competing for
a dial-up connection. There is also no air conditioning in the room
with the systems and people. It gets REALLY
HOT in there.
Click HERE for picture. The staff, however, was very helpful an even helped me connect my portable to their network so I could mail out some images of little Emily. |
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