On the edge of the city the street dissolves into a maze of winding, slim, wooded lanes. That you are surrounded by roadside artisans, stores and taverns, then by graceful villas and commuters on bicycles, cyclos and motorbikes. Contemporary buildings look from nowhere, searching so out of location you have to marvel should they ended up dropped from your sky and just left where by they arrived to rest. Whilst you explain to yourself that nothing as preposterous as Hanoi is often so beautiful, you cannot enable but be dazzled.