The Hotel Metropole Sofitel

Our last day in Vietnam. Hanoi. We decided to splurge and went to the Metropole, the grand dame leftover from the French colonial era. It's a great place, old world charm, and reminiscent of The Raffles in Singapore, Foreign Correspondents Club in Phnom Penh - Cambodia and an old Indian hill station like Ootacamund. We ate at The Spices, the food was exotic and terrific. Tia was tired and wanted to sleep, uh oh, but no problem, the maitré de joined two chairs, got a cushion and a brocade silk cover, and voilá - dinner uninterrupted.

Tia asleep at The Spices.