my time in Vietnam gets shorter… 
My roommates, Alex from France and Robert from Germany, were better in sleeping, so I had more than 2 hours to stay in bed silently and by that managed to finish selecting the Angkor Wat photos for the blog and upload everything.
Breakfast was very simple, a glass of hot water (as I don’t drink coffee) and a sandwich with a fried egg. I am used to eat with little salt and normally add no spices to served food, but this was even boring for me. Robert and I went to the “French bakery” and I took something typical French, namely a pizza. But it didn’t taste to typical like pizza and it had a lot of (Vietnamese) vegetables on top, so I don’t regret this irregularity from the principle to eat only local food.
Then I washed my bike that didn’t show any signs of being washed 4 days before.
Robert went back to Hanoi to take a night bus to the South and I went to the barber. There were mainly young customers who came in with a stylish haircut that I never in my life had when I come out and I could be (grand)father of them. And so, for them in many regards I was a kind of curiosity. But I got a full treatment with hair wash before cutting, then cutting my hair, my beard, my hair in the nose, another hair wash and drying.
In my new – let’s also call it “styling” – on my clean bike I made a short tour to another part of Halong, separated by the bay and connected by a big bridge.
I wonder if this city with ~250.000 inhabitants has more hotel-capacity than Vienna with 1,8mio inhabitants. Maye some business men understand more of that than I and know how many hotels can be built until it is enough. To me, it is more than enough now, but I don’t know how it looks like in other seasons.
After that tour, I went back to my planning. Another tourist, Melchior from Switzerland, had arrived and we spend some time talking. For me, a good distraction and reason for procrastination as I was not motivated for some things (that had to be done, and I did them, but it took me a while). For dinner, I tried to find a Vegetarian restaurant, but the one that I found did not work in this season. So, I went to another, local, bakery to get something wrapped in banana leaves, but big and heavy. It was something between pudding and jelly with a mixture of beans and – as I suppose – minced meat.
Then, I went on to a normal Vietnamese Restaurant to get a soup with noodles and Vegetables (I just asked them to omit the chicken).
So, nothing special happened, it was a rest day and a day for catching up. Catching up didn’t work too good, but at least some things are done.