It's now around 13:00, we just walked past the local fruit markets and have many things gekochtdie we do not know. Tonight we arrived around 2:00, the train was delayed. Luckily we found a hotel about what was next to the station, so that was quickly found. We have reserved, yes ... but the room we got was something more luxurious than what we booked. Lucky because we have the price or just on paper, so if they make a fuss is not our fault.
The room is luxurious ... the most luxurious room yet. 1.20 We have two beds, a sofa, a desk with computer, a table with mirror, a mini keukentj, Arico, TV and bathroom. In short, we bathe in the luxury.
The luck is that we have cable internet, after all the internet stuff in Beijing (so far biggest source of frustration on the trip) is wonderful just to be able posten.Vannacht on arrival in the Netherlands was a normal time so we yet another time we can call. We hear that many people follow us, but just hear a voice is not it fine.
The main goal today was get tickets for the train to Hanoi tonight. Google trans later we had the phrase "we want two tickets for the train to Hanoi tonight 'translated and put on the Bebooks. When we walked out the hotel this morning was the heat and humidity like a blanket over us. With all the fruit stalls and shops, this is the China that I envisioned, hot, sweaty but very lively. Funny, you really get a holiday feeling. Yesterday we heard da thet in the Netherlands 'finally' a bit of nice weather. We are within 3 weeks from +2 to -24 and back to +25. Unbelievable and a bit bizarre. The new jeans are already too hot to wear and we come to the painful conclusion that we really do not have enough 'light' and airy clothes with us.
Back to the tickets. They understood exactly what we mean by the Bebook and apart vand I ate my passport in the hotel had left it went smoothly. We have calculated that the tickets we now have cost about 210 euros for 2 people (from Beijing to Hanoi) while if we had taken this more direct train around 550 would be. Still nice savings and that makes us better in the room of the luxury to enjoy.
Michael has just a fruit decomposes, no idea how we should eat, he describes it as an aqueous kiwi. Google told us that it is Pittaya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya) ... hmm, delicious fruit breakfast!
