Day 10 Hang Mai to Cau Lo

  I listened to an interesting interview last night while Jen was snoring, with Gaia Vince https://youtu.be/ftEKVSZk7qU.she was talking about climate change and one of the interesting, yet morbid assertions was about the affect of increased humidity and higher temperatures on the human body. In a nutshell one can literally boil internally at a much lower temperature than one would  assume under normal conditions. 

The high humidity in Vietnam is not making us boil but it is making the washing and more importantly the drying of my cycling shorts near impossible. We was our cycling kit each evening (which is covered in mud and dust from the road) and have taken to placing the articles in and around a fan. Sometimes by the next morning they are dry but more often than not they are damp. 

I'm telling you about our domestic woes, because nothing of any significance happened today. Same meanderings along tracks and brushing alongside the south China sea, seeing fishermen put out to sea in their precarious vessels. Half way through our trip we did meet a couple of Dutch cyclist heading in the same direction and staying at the same hotel this evening. They arrived in Vietnam on December the first but soon after arriving the lady went blind in one eye with a detached retina. She was rushed and operated on at a Japanese hospital in Hanoi and spent 3 weeks convalescing. The brave soul was now back on her bike with her eye patch in place and heading to Bangkok - a huge distance. She and her husband were no spring chickens, so big shout out to them.

We are having a rest day tomorrow in this seaside resort, so will probably have even less to write about. I'll let you know if we've been boiled or more likely whether our clothes have dried!!!