Day 86 - The Unexpected Four Hour Lunch Stop

I was almost too sleepy this morning to enjoy the impressive buffet for breakfast, and the lack of black tea wasn't helping! Paying the interest on all of those short nights.

It was a smoggy, overcast and oppressive day, which definitely didn't help with the tiredness, but the route was pretty along the coast as I caught Emma up after necking my bubble tea. A few minutes in I get a fairly standard message from Emma:

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We were going along okay until we realised we needed US dollars and passport photos for the next border crossing, so we diverted off route to the last big town before the border.

After failing at two non-existant money exchanges and one photo booth we stopped for lunch. And what a lunch! Our short research paid off big time as we stumbled across one insanely good vegan buffet! For 3.81 euros each, all you can eat, high quality. We stayed in that heaven for a good few hours, making a planning session out of it. There was tofu "pork belly" which was so realistic I couldn't believe it wasn't the real thing, along with vegetarian versions of all of the main Vietnamese dishes we haven't been able to try yet.

After lunch we went to the recommended photo studio for passport photos. It was a slightly, wander-around-the-bottom-floor-of-a-block-of-flats-trying-to-work-out-the-system experience until we eventually found the photographer (no automatic booths here) and had our pictures taken.

The pictures, like all of the other official pictures we saw taken, were edited by a room of photoshop wizards. It was both insane to see how much they changed and how quickly they could do it!

That all took a lot longer than expected, so we changed plan to do less distance and get an early night!

One check-in at a 19 euro, fancy hotel later and the early arrival was accomplished! I'll stop writing now to achieve the early bedtime too!

Food spend today: 17.34 euros

Tea consumption: 4, of which zero were proper black tea :(