Third step of my trip in Vietnam: Hue, a city located in the east of the country above Hoi An, which I will reach by train. The journey is quite amazing, especially because it is announced three hours of travel, and after two hours only a third of the journey has been completed. It must be said that this first part is on a mountainside, on one side the train overlooks the sea, on the other side it’s a very steep mountain covered with jungle.
The train moves very slowly on this first part. I guess it is simply because it is possible that the voice is cut especially this period of heavy monsoon rain by mudslides or trees from the mountain.The travel time of three hours will finally be held since once back in the plain the train accelerates considerably and completes the last two thirds of the journey in one hour.
Arrived in Hue under a beating rain, I walk 1 km to join the hotel, one of these mini hotel like there are several in the city, a building all in height with two rooms by level. First disappointment on arrival: While there are free rooms on the first two floors I am given the room furthest up on the fourth floor. Second disappointment but it is perhaps related to the distance of the room the wi-fi does not function in the room.
I go back down and say that it won’t be possible not to have wifi, I need it to work. The very nice girl at the reception desk tells a young man who is sitting in an armchair playing video games on his mobile phone and who hardly lifts his head.
I go out to eat and in the first restaurant I eat extremely badly: a chicken completely done that I do not touch, I eat only the rice which is not terrible. It starts rather badly in this city.
Fortunately I walk in some very nice places along the Perfume River and while looking for a place to eat, I go to an address found remotely by Maite who is worried about my health, and I meet Li, who owns a restaurant where we eat very well and who speaks extremely good English.
I explain her my problems with the hotel, she offers me a room in the hotel opposite which is obviously held by someone of her family. I end up going back to my hotel to cancel my reservation, give them a compensation and I move for two days in the hotel which is in front of what will be my favorite canteen. In Li’s restaurant, all the food is good and the breakfast is hearty. Even the coffee is rather drinkable which is exceptional in Vietnam.
I spend two days in Hue, under a permanent downpour which does not prevent me from enjoying the walk along the Perfume River which fortunately has a nice name because the water is really disgusting. I’m very interested in the universities of the city which are really places that make you want to study: beautiful buildings, big park. 
This first day I will spend at least two hours in the citadel which is a really gigantic site.
It is a very amazing place with buildings that are “only” two centuries old but look much older.
The second day I will walk to the pagoda a good 10 km round trip still in the rain. This will allow me some interesting photographic encounters especially by the river 
Departure from Hue to Ninh Bình by the night train in which I will not be able to sleep much, lulled by the infernal noise of the train and the even more infernal noise of the snoring of my neighbor.
Hue, a rather charming city, but not necessarily a place I would want to come back to, especially since I was the victim of a banal and very stupid act from a Vietnamese.
Once again (I’m sorry) I don’t think we can witness this kind of stupid act in Thailand: I was making a phone call when it started to rain extremely hard; I took shelter at the entrance of a big electrical goods store, I sat on the low wall next to the entrance of the store, a place where obviously I was not bothering many people. The guard in charge of the security of the scooters (there is one in front of every department store) started to look at me sideways. After a while, he found that I had been occupying his space for too long and had a bright idea. He went to the very large loudspeaker next to me, which is used to broadcast the store’s publicity, and with a triumphant smile he turned up the volume.
Of course, there was no way to call, so I went a little further. That’s very clever.
