Hello from Hue

Nothing much to report here except that I've been wandering around Hue city today, and will be moving on again tomorrow - just a short distance this time to Hoi An. And it will be a daytime journey. Last night's travel from Hanoi was a bit of an endurance test. Hanoi had hours of torrential downpour in the afternoon; so when our departure time of 6 pm was due, the city was in a state of gridlock with lots of badly flooded roads. We eventually left two hours late, and arrived in Hue 3 hours late at about 10 am today. The weather here is extremely hot, but at this time of year there is always the threat in the air of late afternoon rain. Today I think we will get away without it. For the first time on my travels I actually have the internet here in my hotel bedroom. Not that there is any shortage of internet cafes anywhere here. They tend to be full of kids using the computers to play daft games though. The atmosphere is usually too full of noisy excitement for comfort. I can attach just one picture - of the bridge reserved for bicycles and motor bikes.

Like Hanoi this is a city of motorbikes. I think Hanoi has something like 3.5 million people and 2 million motorbikes. Hue is an ancient city with a unique citadel and memorials to old emperors. Sadly it was smashed up mainly by the Americans during that war, and seems to have been rather neglected ever since.