I spent a nice couple of hours wandering around Tay Ho today. I walked to the end of the lane my house is on and headed down streets I'd not seem before for a bit before heading back to the main street next to my house. The main reason for this was so that I could go to the chocolate cafe. I eat hardly any chocolate here as most of it tastes grim but I was in the mood for some decent chocolate. This place is kinda pricey but it makes up for it by serving amazingly chocolaty food. It's got an interesting choice of decor - its really twee and girly but its a nice place to chill for a bit. I tried the chocolate chip cookies which are served hot as I didn't think I would be able to eat the chocolate cake - as nice as it sounds it would probably have been far too sickly. I think the cake requires two people. I decided against a hot chocolate to drink as I didn't want to overload my senses with chocolate so I went for a strange sounding coffee that has coconut and lime in it. Despite sounding rather dubious it was actually rather tasty! The pic below shows my amazing snack!



Once I was done there I went to the lake and walked around the area. I took a whole heap of pretentious arty photos - all the colours looked really bright today and everything looked good against the bright blue sky. I finally dragged myself back home to mark the assignments then once I was done I headed out again to a couple of the temples for a nosey around and took a load more photos before watching the sun set over the lake.

I've decided to randomly stick some of my favourite photos of today up here, and in future I think I'm going to try and make my posts more interesting by adding some of my photos to them. Not sure how long that resolution will last however!

The walls all over Hanoi are covered in these random phone numbers:


All plant life look very green today:


And the red flowers that can be seen all over the place looked particularly bright:


In this one I like the reflection in the swimming pool:


I really like this one - it's probably one of my favourite photos out of all the ones I took today:


In this one I like both the reflection and the contrast between the little reed house in the middle of the lake and the big luxury apartment block in the background:


And finally, shortly before sunset this evening the colours looked even more amazing: