Ok, I am not good at it. I can't keep my promise to assure a daily presence here in this blog. Maybe the fact is that nobody is adding their comments or maybe it's just because I am lazy... Certainly, if somebody is reading this blog, I will be happy to get their comments or questions...
Yesterday, after practically an entire day spent at the hotel sleeping and getting some rest, I went with my colleagues to a "healthy bar". A healthy bar is a place where they give you some food and where you can get a massage. Somebody from the local company I am working for suggested it. The place was really naif... After 45 minutes on the taxi in the over croweded streets of Hanoi, we arrived to this place which is located next to an agopuncture center. In there, it was possible to find only Asians, and that was part of the fun. Apart from the man at the reception, nobody else was able to speak in English so we had to communicate with our gestures... an activity which is not so difficult for those coming from the "Bella Italia"! The reception was located on the ground floor. It consisted on a big room with some tables, a television showing a football match between two Asian teams and a sort of kitchen. I am not able to classify this place into a specific category. It wasn't neither a bar nor a massage center as we know them.... They asked to sit down and wait for ten minutes. I started observing this place with a strange feeling inside me, a mixture of excitement and strange impression which I can't even describe. I noticed the presence of an Hochi Min picture on the wall and a cooking board on each table. I thought that those cooking boards are used to cook hot pots and other kind of foods which need to be eaten on the go.
A girl brougt us a cup of tea (with lemon and some strange granular poweder inside) and some fruits (banana and a no-classified other fruit). We waited exactly 10 minutes before somebody called us and asked us to go upstairs.
In there, after an initial moment of emabarassment, we had to get naked and put on a special brief. Then, shower and:
- 10 minutes into a sort of cask barrel with very warm water and some perfume (special herbs);
- 10 minutes into an idromassage bath tube;
- 10 minutes of turkish bath;
- 10 minutes of sauna.
After a shower, we went into a corridor with different doors opening into some small rooms with a bed in the middle. A hole on the top of the bed was present exactly on one extremity, in order to place the face. A young woman entered and she started the massage. That was my first time in my life.... All my muscles were relaxed for more than one hour. A final touch consisted with a succession of hot and cold towels pressing my body amplifying the pleasant sensation...
I went out from the "healthy bar" happy, relaxed and with the idea to come back!
Yesterday, after practically an entire day spent at the hotel sleeping and getting some rest, I went with my colleagues to a "healthy bar". A healthy bar is a place where they give you some food and where you can get a massage. Somebody from the local company I am working for suggested it. The place was really naif... After 45 minutes on the taxi in the over croweded streets of Hanoi, we arrived to this place which is located next to an agopuncture center. In there, it was possible to find only Asians, and that was part of the fun. Apart from the man at the reception, nobody else was able to speak in English so we had to communicate with our gestures... an activity which is not so difficult for those coming from the "Bella Italia"! The reception was located on the ground floor. It consisted on a big room with some tables, a television showing a football match between two Asian teams and a sort of kitchen. I am not able to classify this place into a specific category. It wasn't neither a bar nor a massage center as we know them.... They asked to sit down and wait for ten minutes. I started observing this place with a strange feeling inside me, a mixture of excitement and strange impression which I can't even describe. I noticed the presence of an Hochi Min picture on the wall and a cooking board on each table. I thought that those cooking boards are used to cook hot pots and other kind of foods which need to be eaten on the go.
A girl brougt us a cup of tea (with lemon and some strange granular poweder inside) and some fruits (banana and a no-classified other fruit). We waited exactly 10 minutes before somebody called us and asked us to go upstairs.
In there, after an initial moment of emabarassment, we had to get naked and put on a special brief. Then, shower and:
- 10 minutes into a sort of cask barrel with very warm water and some perfume (special herbs);
- 10 minutes into an idromassage bath tube;
- 10 minutes of turkish bath;
- 10 minutes of sauna.
After a shower, we went into a corridor with different doors opening into some small rooms with a bed in the middle. A hole on the top of the bed was present exactly on one extremity, in order to place the face. A young woman entered and she started the massage. That was my first time in my life.... All my muscles were relaxed for more than one hour. A final touch consisted with a succession of hot and cold towels pressing my body amplifying the pleasant sensation...
I went out from the "healthy bar" happy, relaxed and with the idea to come back!
