The next few nights where spent at the home of a friend of the family. I`d never met them before but it`d been arranged that they`d pick me up from the hostel and show me the way to theirs.
It was nice to see somewhere outside the very center of the city. Because of our usual time limits with each place you rarely get to see the outskirts of the town. The interest in you as a tourist definitely increases, just a walk to the local university on the first night resulted in being followed my an entourage of young students all wanting to ask questions and practise their English.
The next day i was taken to the local pottery town (bat Trang) where i was able to meet the people who designed and made some of the products.
After the second day i had to move on though, it was sad to say bye to Tien and the family, the kids and everyone had made me feel really at home and i`d been fed to the point of bursting but i had a lot of distance to travel before my visa ran out.... i`d planned on riding to Hue from Hanoi, i`d test drove and looked at quite a few bikes but nothing that was reliable looking and cheap enough to go with so decided i`d do a bus to Hue to make up some time and then try to sort something from there.
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