Just a few photographs. The electricity cabling mesmerised me so that I spent a lot of time inHanoi old town looking up when I probably should have paid more attention to the traffic. My tangled silks and half pulled skeins of embroidery thread look quite neat in comparison and I can’t resist repeating what I said in my last post when I compared the swags of cable to the spewings from some giant’s overturned knitting basket.
But at least there are no roadworks!
Hanoi, the old town: electricity cables and a useful post
Hanoi, the old town: electricity cables and trees added to the urban mix
Hanoi, the old town: electricity cables and more useful posts – or could some of those posts be trees?
Hanoi, the old town: electricity cables and some sort of traffic sign
Hanoi, the old town: electricity cables, and metal supports doubling as useful places to lean a bike (unlocked, of course).
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I remember being fascinated by the pavements in one place, and window surrounds in another. Strange, the things one remembers…
You are so right.
I often think we should look up more in British high streets as the architecture is usually rather fine in a mock Gothic/mock Tudor/Victorian/Arts & Craft way.I also suspect the space above high street shops is underused. Perhaps as more shopping is done online and more local shops become vacant, we shall start to live in our high streets once more.
It looks inherently hazardous somehow, but perhaps it isn’t? Much easier for repair works too, just shin up a ladder rather than digging up the road x
I agree with you on both counts.
State nannying has perhaps made us a bit too neurotic about safety. Though there are traffic lights (not many) and zebra crossings in Vietnam, they aren’t taken very seriously – most people hoot and keep on going. Similarly all motor bike and scooter drivers should wear helmets but a colleague of daughter No 2 thought many wore fashion helmets (including those with indentations for the pony tail) rather than the safety variety. Still it might be that even the fashion ones are made of bamboo and as the video clip I linked to in the Mekong Quilt post (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrqjvuoYBc&feature=youtu.be) these seem to be stronger than most.
Oh my goodness x5. I said it with every picture. I’ve enjoyed your trip!
So glad you’re taking pleasure from the same sort of things that have caught my interest, Katie.
Fascinating, Mary. One can only marvel at the cleverness of their electricity engineers who are able to understand and interpret those interwoven coils.
Hope you’re recovering well from your journey. We’re recovering from having had our very active 5-year old grandson stay with us for 5 days on his own – his request. The feeling is actually very similar to jet lag.
I’d love to know the safety issues of providing electricity in this way. As you say it must take ingenious engineers to sort out what’s what. Trouble is what looks a jolly jumbled eye-catching curiosity in a foreign country would look terrible in say Regent Street – or your local high street – ugh.
Recovery now complete and loving being sleepy at night time and perky in the morning – from an owl to a lark in just a couple of weeks – who knew it was possible?