Hidden Hanoi

During our Hanoian Tet holidays we also went for a bicycle tour through the little alleys across the dyke road, and discovered a lovely neighbourhood made up of a mace of tiny alleys often no more than a meter or two wide, stretching all the way to the Long Bien bridge. Especially lovely now that it was empty.

"Keisuke, do people buy all these flags, or do the government provide them?"
"They buy them."
"Oh. But why?"
"Because they love their country so very much"