My Vietnam atmosphere pics are mounting up, I realize, and perhaps are starting to seem a little monotonous to some, but this is what’s happening on my end and I’ll be seeing it through. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and every day (sorry for the cliche) is a feast for the senses and not incidentally the soul, and it’s Sunday anyway so where’s the harm?
My flight from Hue landed at 9:30 am, and I was back at the Hanoi Movenpick by 10:15 or so. At 12:30 pm I went to a lunch at Ly Club with Hanoi Film Festival sponsor and Vidotour president and CEO Nguyen Mai, Vietnamese actor Chi Bao, finance director But Dinh Anh and actor-model Nhan Phuc Vinh. Then I walked back to the Movenpick with good-natured Vidotour employee Nguyen Son.
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(l. to r.) Actor-model Nhan Phun Vinh, actor Chi Bao, Hanoi Film Festival sponsor and Vidotour CEO Nguyen Mai, finance director But Dinh Anh.
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Vidotour employee Nguyen Son.
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The old Hanoi Hilton, initial North Vietnamese home of John McCain, a POW from October 1967 to February 1973.
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McCain’s military clothing and parachute.
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(l. to r.) Nhan Phun Vinh, But Dinh Anh.
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This, believe it or not, is a mass of TV cable and internet wires.
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