Here’s me and the boys on the Long Bien Bridge, which was finished in 1902 and bombed and rebuilt so many times during the American War, as it’s known here, that today it is a hodgepodge of construction styles. It’s about a mile walk across the Red River, which sort of splits Hanoi and runs north [...]
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June 16, 2008
The Long Bien
The Long Bien bridge is in the north of Hanoi, crossing the Red River and connecting the west part of the city, which seems older and is where the tourists go, and the east part, which is where we walked around today.
The above picture was taken from the bridge, across which we walked today, and is [...]
