I am finally back. I haven't written for a while. Exactly, 5 days passed since my last showing up on this blog. The question is that the whole thing is something preatty new to me and I need time to "digest it" and convert it into a daily task.
I am in Vietnam now and I am writing from my 15th floor-room in the Sofitel Hotel (see the current view from its window at 18,00 local time). After a Thai Airlines flight from Rome, a short stop in Bangkok, and exactly 14 hours of travel, I can feel, on my body and mind, the burden of the 6 time zones I crossed. Actually, the travel was ok. The airplane wasn't fully loaded so it was possible for me to find three free seats in a row where I lay down and tried to sleep. I forced my eyes staying closed with a eye mask but it wasn't helpful. I even tried to withdraw myself listening the entire cd of Susan Boyle, but nothing!!!!
Only after my arrival to the final destination, I started feeling tired.
I am currently sleepy but I can't sleep. I have to avoid my bed until it's the right time. In this way, I will speed up the adaptation of my biological clock to the local time. I have to resist for at least three more hours before I can hug my pillow and pass out.
Only after my arrival to the final destination, I started feeling tired.
I am currently sleepy but I can't sleep. I have to avoid my bed until it's the right time. In this way, I will speed up the adaptation of my biological clock to the local time. I have to resist for at least three more hours before I can hug my pillow and pass out.
What is my first, pardon, second impression about Hanoi? Even though I haven't seen pratically anything so far, I have found a city which is slightly different from the one I knew. In fact, when I came here last July, temperature was higher and sky was blue. This time, on the Vietnamese capital, there's a sort of white blanket which filters the bright sun light and converts it into matt and weak light.
I planned, with my colleagues, to meet up at the reception at 17,30 in order to go to the gym or to the swimming pool. Of course, no one respected the meeting: we are too tired!!! Tonight we will go (maybe) to a typical... DING DONG!!!
Well, a pleasant old lady has just knocked on my door interrupting my writing. She is the housekeeper who already prepared my bed and left a couple of chocolates on the drawer. I am going to eat them straight away!!!
Well, where did I hang my previous sentence? Ah, ok, now I remember... I was saying that tonight I am going with my colleagues to a Vietnamese restaurant to the city center. I hope we will all have the strenght to cross the hotel exit, take a taxi and enjoy some of the genuine Vietnamese cuisine!!!
Will we be able to do so? I'll keep you updated!
P.S.: I don't know if that's the effect of my weariness, or the excitement of being in Hanoi, but I found out that my scare of heights wasn't there when I had to reach my hotel room at the 15th floor through a transparent elevator!! I hope this unespected but appreciated collateral effect will stay there forever!
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