When I entered the hotel yesterday, I saw a guy throwing a tissue on the floor right in front of the door. When I used the lift this morning, there also was rubbish on the floor. And this was made by outgrown men, each of them driving one of the big cars (even some German brands) parking in front of the hotel.

in the lift 
a big bike is also standing in front of the hotel
In the evening, in a simple street restaurant, I saw that the people throw the cover of the one-way chopsticks just on the floor. Not even Austrian “bad boys” would do this to that extend.

(or worse) under each table!
Today for many hours, cycling was pleasing. Mostly no wind, some sun, temperature around 15°C, only 25% bad roads, the rest ok or good and originally only 85km. Half the way was between fields and forests,

the rest dirty and dusty villages or dirty and dusty towns. In one city, Lianjiang, I saw pupils with their teacher on a cleaning tour. We have that in Vienna, too, called “spring cleaning” and I also participated once with a class. But we had no ribbons with slogans.


Today, I saw many signs with communist’s slogans, quite sure they would sound funny, if they were not part of a reality that I don’t find so funny.

Back to the road. I landed in Huazhou according to location given at booking.com and in maps.me. But no one knew the place. Then I came to a big new built house and before I even could go there, a man came to me, offering help, and another one and a third, and a woman and so on until there was a crowd of 12 people. One of them brought me two bottles of water and one of them talked to me in English. He showed me the location of the Chinese address written in the booking-email: 17,5km from there! I was used to wrong locations, but always within a reasonable distance. I asked him to call the hotel and after that, he gave me another number of the owner of the hotel if I would have any difficulties.
Now, it is not nice to have the feeling of being landed, and first look around and ask and then learn that you must nearly go back 17km. Additionally I had been going 11km more then necessary to reach the wrong location, so it is 28km more. But on a short day, this is not so bad. Tomorrow however, I would have had 130 km anyway and now it is 17km more (and I don’t like to do the same road 2x…)

who pinned the location of the hotel there?? 
To have no stress with biological necessities when I have problems in the town finding the place or so, I made a stop on my way. When I came back to my bike, I Chinese bike traveller arrived. He looked as if he would cycle a lot and since long. He couldn’t talk English, so we just took some selfies and said good-bye. Btw, he is born 1949, according to the ID-card he showed to me.


…and again a slogan?
The route was long but not complicated for the first 16km and then I asked again a woman selling oranges. (The last two days, oranges were the most offered food along the streets) She was friendly, and I bought 3 oranges. When I again didn’t know how to continue, I was in front of a tea house and again a group of people came together from different sides. Some of them seemed to know what I am looking for, a girl told me the owner would come in a few minutes, meanwhile, children took photos of me and everyone seemed a bit excited and amused. The owner came on a motorcycle and we went ~500m to his hotel.
After check-in, I made early evening walk to get food. I got my bananas and milk for the muesli, some sweets, some breaded and fried vegetables and a noodle soup.
Then, for the first time, I saw a shop for “China Unicom”, the only company that has SIM cards working with my phone (or the other way around). But the shop assistant told me, he cannot sell them to foreigners…
