CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ericphelps Roses: if you choose the right soil, water me regularly, not too much sun, but also not too little, if you cut the weeds, pamper me and show a lot of love, I will give you flowers.

Wild flowers: a crack in the curb, yeah baby, I grow!

@ericphelps With this hill we got lucky. To beat the crowd we arrived already before 9 am, but even later the temperature stayed relatively low, only 25 C.

However, climbing the Marble Montain in Da Nang… didn’t want to take the elevator and man, that was hot. Sweat was dripping from my chin is streams, and people coming down kept saying something like “just a bit more, hold on, there’s a swimming pool up there”. And it was so nice in my head, just jumping in with all my clothes.

Technically not really #Hiking as part of the tour was at a well-known tourist site of #HangMua of northern #Vietnam , but breathtaking #nature nevertheless.

The whole region has many roads / pathways between limestone hills and hundreds of lakes. Among them quite a few villages and many scattered restaurants catering to tourists. Still, the vibe is quite authentic and unspoiled. Great for biking and hiking.

Hope to do a boat tour in the next days.

#Hiking in the countryside around Da Nang, #Vietnam .

This region suffered disastrous floods just a few months ago. Although it’s technically dry season now, due to climate change there is still a lot of rain.

We got a few dry hours in the morning, walked through rice fields, dense forests and some streams, but soon it started raining agan. We sought refuge in a local village, had some Vietnamese (rice) pancakes and took a Grab ride back to the hotel.

I call it a nice day.

@scalzi Same situation here for predatory science conferences. No way I can go through all the fake invitations. The amount exploded after “AI” became mainstream. There is a set of established ones I pick myself and the only way new ones can get through all the spam is through direct (human) contact. Sad, but true.