I thought J should take it easy today, the day before the race. We had breakfast in the hotel when we eventually got out of bed. Then we rented a couple of bikes to ride down to the beach. Now that was not so relaxing, what with less-than-ideal bikes and the usual mad streets (though a tenth of what it was like in HCMC). We stopped by the Victoria and found the 2Ms on the beach. Walked over to Golden Sands to drop off the EPA camera but discovered the Weitzes were in town, so we went back to the beach and lazed there for a few hours.

Cua Dai beach is lovely -- clean (at least, in front of the resorts), calm, quiet and picturesque. The kids would like to stay here, I thought. We sat under umbrellas and had pasta, white roses and a capi vodka (or I did). At 3.30, we made a move to cycle back to our hotel. That gave us enough time to shower and change to meet everyone at Good Morning Vietnam for the carbo loading dinner. It had great swordfish carpaccio and I had a most tasty tagliatelle with gambieri and caviar. Got in a quick tea with the 2Ms (Mo looking resplendent in a grey ruched top and beads) at Hai Cafe before going home to sleep early. But it was still 11.15 before we turned out the lights.