I didn’t want to post more photos of bathrooms… 
…but IS this a bath room? it is outside, and it had only cold water 🙁
When I left my room in the morning, my bike was standing in front of the door (instead of outside, where I had locked it). It was nice that someone took care and carried it inside, but the long USB-cable that I had installed to connect the SPOT device with the dynamo, was ruined. The mini USB-plug was torn apart. The cable is very stable, and I cannot imagine how this could happen. The hotel manager, of course, knew nothing and I could do nothing but leave without that cable.
it was again a day with less wind, only very wet, without real rain. My jacket was wet very soon, and I took my rain cover, but then the rains stopped immediately. I didn’t want to play the on/off game, but after a few kilometres, I put the rain cover away again. The same with my glasses. When I had them on, after a few minutes, I couldn’t see much. When I put them down, I got the feeling, it is drier again and I can take them, but it is soon too humid again.
Ok, no big problem, especially when the way is clear enough that I can follow the route with my poor natural view.
I came to Thanh Hóa and looked for a copy shop. Normally, you find 5 of them in every village (only slightly exaggerated) and now I crossed nearly the whole city to find one. There, I saw that some older papers in a plastic cover in my bag had gone mouldy since I last checked them a few weeks ago.
I also saw again sandwich booths, after 3 or 400 km. So, I took one at the shop of an elder friendly couple. It was cheap, and she asked me if I would like to have extra egg for 10000 more, and I simply agreed, because she was honest. In the meantime, her husband offered me a pipe. I never had seen such a pipe before and Thanh Hóa was full of them, you could buy them in several shops in each street that I crossed.
Later, I saw farmer offering pineapples, but not just a few, rather hundreds. I took one for 10000 and asked if the seller would cut it and put in my container. She did and I wanted to pay more for the extra work (a whole, uncut pineapple cannot cost the same as a prepared one, but she refused the money. So, I took some packages covered in banana leaves for the additional money. The first time when I bought such, there was rice with beans in it and I wanted to get that again, because the leave gives a better taste. But after unpacking many layers of leave, there was a thin roll with something, and the roll was covered in plastic foil. That was strange, because how should the leave get in touch with that roll?
When I went on, the pineapple shops were mixed with shops for stone sculptures. That could be small or bigger statues but also big “landscapes”.
The last 10km to my hostel in a resort were on bad roads where I only could go 5-10km/h and always had to care about slipping in the mud. But the landscape became more interesting and mysterious because of the fog.
In the end I landed in a luxury place, but they also had a 10-bed dormitory for 3$. When I arrived, it was empty, but then 3 or 4 Vietnamese guys checked in. Or only one? It was a coming and going, they were at least lying in 4 different beds, but only one brought a back bag in the room, the others had nothing. While I was writing, I was alone and don’t know how many will come back and stay overnight.
I took dinner and would have had the option to take a pizza or pasta for around 150.000d but I took my usual rice+vegetables(+egg)-combination for 50000.
A while after I left the restaurant, it knocked on the door and the manager brought my purse! I don’t know how I could have lost it and why I didn’t notice it at least later. And it was enough money inside, because yesterday, I withdrew money.
I only know that I was busy with planning and organizing, because now it is sure that I can go to Australia by freighter and I had to fill in many papers (that I had printed in the copyshop), take photos and send them to my agency in Berlin and every other minute, the internet connection failed. That was troublesome, especially when I also tried to transfer the money for the ticket. Now, everything is done, I can complete my diary and go to sleep.
nly one brought a back bag in the room, the others had nothing. While I was writing, I was alone and don’t know how many will come back and stay overnight.
I took dinner and would have had the option to take a pizza or pasta for around 150.000d but I took my usual rice+vegetables(+egg)-combination for 50000.
A while after I left the restaurant, it knocked on the door and the manager brought my purse! I don’t know how I could have lost it and why I didn’t notice it at least later. And it was enough money inside, because yesterday, I withdrew money.
I only know that I was busy with planning and organizing, because now it is sure that I can go to Australia by freighter and I had to fill in many papers (that I had printed in the copyshop), take photos and send them to my agency in Berlin and every other minute, the internet connection failed. That was troublesome, especially when I also tried to transfer the money for the ticket. Now, everything is done, I can complete my diary and go to sleep.
cement factory with 
many big workhouses