Handmade

Back to the Phủ Thành Chương excursion, I saw this collection of tools used in the field - still today!

Generation clash

I wasn't kidding when I said that youngsters were skateboarding next to Lenin!

At the flower market - loading the bike

Minimalism

Red light

At the flower market - the business man

Skipping a generation

Precious China

At the flower market - the transporter (bis)

At the flower market - the transporter

Here I was at the Nghi Tam flower market the other night, and if you wanted to know how all those precious flowers are transported - well, here's your answer!

Breakdance contest

This group of youngsters was performing yesterday (as I suspect they do every weekend) on the Lenin square - that's right, just a little distance away from the statue of the Russian communist leader! Vietnam keeps surprising me in the many, many ways it's modernizing itself!

Vol de nuit

I never get tired of Trúc Bạch Lake; this was taken at... 3am last night. I decided to go on a short motorbike trip to the flower market at its peak hour and enjoyed the quietness of the city on the way there, something we're not really used to having in the daytime!

Home?

As Yann Arthus-Bertrand's much anticipated movie 'Home' is being released worldwide today, I couldn't miss the occasion to post this 'Earth from Above'-like picture!

Go catch it in your nearest movie theater (for Hanoians, you can actually go to l'Espace) or watch it on Youtube - in HD, no less!

Hoa Đại

[somewhere in the Phủ Thành Chương manor]

HDP first birthday!

One year (and 200 posts) later, here we are. I'm still having fun taking pictures in the city and sharing them with you - keep the comments & suggestions coming!

Booh!

Still at the Phủ Thành Chương residence, found this scary (but colorful) statue.

CDP Theme Day: Feet

Funky shoes, right? I found those at the Phủ Thành Chương residence during a photo field trip there yesterday.

I'll be posting more of the pics I took there throughout the week, in the mean time go visit what the other members of the CDP community concocted for you!