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December 2023
Meet the people – at home with retired doctors Doanh and Mai
Meet Bác sĩ Doanh Mai’ at their home off Vo Chi Cong street. This is the first of a what we hope will be series of at home chats with husband and wife Doanh and Mai - former doctors now retired who now live close to their family in Hanoi. They are delighted to open their home up to a small group of FVH members and share their working experience, memories and stories giving their own unique insight into life…
Find out more »FVH Language Exchange Club and meet up – let’s talk languages
FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CONVERSATION, LANGUAGES AND VIETNAM FVH is one very big community of like-minded people who adore Vietnamese culture, history and heritage. And we include a huge number of nationalities from every continent. So we thought let’s start a new fun social way to meet up and share our languages within the context of Vietnam. We meet every Tuesday evening 6.30pm-7.30pm at Abracado (vegan restaurant) 60 Tô Ngọc Vân. Goole map link – https://goo.gl/maps/Z1QZhf457DRuQ7Fz7 https://www.facebook.com/abracado.vegan/ for December we are meeting 5…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (English) – St. Joseph’s Cathedral area walk
BOXING DAY MORNING WALK The history and overview of St Joseph's Cathedral and its environs, who Lý Quốc Sư street was named after, zig zagging in and out of the old quarter's narrow and hidden alleys colourful and crowded at this time of year. We start outside St. Joseph’s Cathedral, up to old quarter streets including Yên Thái, Hàng Quat, and Hàng Trống. We also visit wo important pagodas/temples (Chùa/Đền) and two community houses (Đình) - entry into these is TBC depending if…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (English) p.m – Trúc Bạch Lake & Ngũ Xã – FULL
A BOXING DAY AFTERNOON TRADITION AS OF 4 DECEMBER THIS WALK IS FULL - PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST AND WE WILL TRY TO REPEAT THE WALK FOR THE WAITING LIST OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD Although we have run this walk a few times this year, it seems to one that is traditionally held on Boxing Day afternoon so this year is no different. The theme of this wak is very eclectic touching on bronze casting, and the general…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (ENG) – Buildings and Barbers, a Battle and Burials – FULL
27 December is the 15th day of the lunar month. This walk is scheduled when its 1st or 15th of the lunar month as we need to go inside the last venue on this walk. AS OF 4 DECEMBER THIS WALK IS FULL - PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST Welcome to a brand new FVH Hanoi City walk and this is a long and more challenging one at 4 hours so lets regard this as a half day walk.…
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