Heyho! Today is already my last day in Vietnam, although it is by no means the end of this adventure. Tomorrow at 5:30 am I will take a taxi to the airport and fly via Guangzhou to Sanya, where I will try to play some bridge :) When I wrote the last entry we were still in Halong Bay. Yesterday morning we were taken back to Hanoi by our private bus. Here we stay in a nice hotel in the old quater of the town. Not far away there is a lake and around it a very nice...

Hey all! After our last (and longest) night in a night train we arrived this morning at 4:30 am in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, and took a private bus to Halong Bay. I am glad that we don't have another night train journey. This one took 13 hours (3:30 pm yesterday till 4:30 am today) and although our compartment was all right, the restrooms (or "happyroom" how they use to call it here - because you are happy to find one and happy after you have left it) were real...

Heyho! I have no idea how many people are reading my blog and who. But maybe some non german-speaking friends would like to follow my journey(s) as well, so I have decided to continue this in English. I know my english skills are far from perfect but it should be enough for everybody to understand me and I am trying to improve :) I was giving this some thinking today (on the bus ride from Hoi An to Hue where I actually thought a lot about the world and my life a...

Großes Hallo aus Hoi An! Seit ich hier bin habe ich das Gefühl, dass der Urlaub erst so richtig angefangen hat. Ich habe gerade einen super entspannten und schönen Tag am Traumstrand hinter mir, mit unter Palmen liegen, zwischendurch in herrlichem Wasser schwimmen gehen und Frühlingsrollen im Strandrestaurant essen (und alles frisch abgehobene Geld für Mitbringsel ausgeben, weil ich zu den Strandverkäuferinnen einfach nicht Nein sagen kann - ich meine, sie...

Hallo ihr Lieben, da bin ich wieder, inzwischen in Nha Trang, einer kleineren Stadt am Meer. Was ist inzwischen passiert? Gestern früh begann der Tag mit dem Frühstück im Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Es gab ein paar normale Sachen (Toast, diversen undefinierbaren, aber eindeutig fleischhaltigen Belag, Marmelade, Eier) und auch einiges Ungewohntes (z.B. Reis, Frühlingsrollen). Misstrauisch wie ich gegenüber Fleisch bin, gab es für mich Reis mit Spiegelei, Tee...