Hanoi, home of the motorcycle

Taxi drivers are rip-off merchants wherever you go, London included, but after 15 hours travelling you just don't care.

I've seen about 400 scooters but only 6 motorcycles, although one of those was a lovely Ducati Monster. A lot of these vehicles were happily driving on the wrong side of the road against oncoming traffic.

On said scooters the average number of people perched on the little Honda or Yamaha is 2, 4 being the maximum so far. The youngest passenger cannot have been older than 3, neither she nor her father was wearing a helmet and he was smoking while driving.

That being said, riding one handed is normal here with the free hand doing one of three things- resting in pocket, smoking cigarette, holding mobile phone as you read a text. The UK health and safety bods would be laughed out of the country!