Breakfast in some kind of order was: a bowl of pho with hot chillies, sweet and sour pork, stir fry noodles and veg, pork sausages and tomatoes × 2 for every thing except pho.
The long bus trip was very familiar. Same route as 2023, same shop halfway, same boat to Halong Bay and the same room on the boat.
Lunch on boat was in no particular order sweet and sour pork, fish, some squid thing that, to my credit, I ate a bite of, and just plate after plate of food that kept coming.
I have been brave by not identifying as a hater of seafood.
Dinner was same as lunch but with oysters and massive prawns, and fried pork and about 100 spring rolls. And all of this with only 5000 steps on the scoreboard.
Coming off the plane last night, we had to walk down stairs to the tarmac. My right knee hurt lots. Today stepping up a big step off the boat, my left knee recently hurt. The result was a walk halfway up a big hill with lots of steps. I hope it's side effects to malaria tablets.
