+travel+ All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go.

To Hanoi for a week.

I am looking forward to handmade fresh pate and crusty, soft baguette from Old Quarter.

Also bowls and bowls of fragrant, steaming, subtly flavoured beef consomme drowning a handful of rice vermicelli, dotted with broken pieces of fresh basil and a squeeze of lime.

And coffee! Fresh coffee, dripped impossibly slow over half a glass of sweet condensed milk and ice.

Ah Hanoi, how I love you!

By the way, this is the lightest bag I have packed in a while.