{"id":76,"date":"2014-09-07T02:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T02:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickispenblog.wordpress.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:43:39","slug":"first-glimpse-of-hanoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/07\/first-glimpse-of-hanoi\/","title":{"rendered":"First glimpse of Hanoi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve arrived! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7428-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I made it to the hostel without too much trouble today. I think I paid a couple of dollars more than I could have, but at least the taxi man took me to the right hostel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drive from the airport was a great glimpse into the Hanoi\/Vietnam lifestyle. \u00a0My favourite moments from that short trip have to be: seeing a family of four on a moped, seeing five beer barrels attached to the back of another and the ridiculously hazardous state of the electricity pylons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CIMG7478-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve arrived! \ud83d\ude42 I made it to the hostel without too much trouble today. I think I paid a couple of dollars more than I could have, but at least the taxi man took me to the right hostel. The drive from the airport was a great glimpse into the Hanoi\/Vietnam lifestyle. \u00a0My favourite moments &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,391,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backpacking","category-solo-travel","category-vietnam","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}