There are plenty of 'official' tourist board videos of places that project an idealised version of the destination; when you've been there and compare it to the video, there's a disconnect. Not the case with this Hanoi video guide, produced by the Vietnamese government. It's got the obligatory soft-focus expected, but the images chosen are recognisable to anyone who's visited this fantastic city - bicycles overladen, chaos mingling with order, nature, history, pollution and food that looks so good you can almost taste it.

It's ten years since I visited Hanoi, but watching the video makes it feel like it was yesterday - looking at people wandering around its old quarter; people stretching and exercising at dusk alongside the Hoan Kiem Lake, and seeing the food vendors selling their wares - magical!