A cold coming we had of it
It was probably 40 degrees on Monday in Melbourne. It certainly felt like that as we packed.
Tuesday was spent on planes and in the weird non-space that is the airports of the world.
On Wednesday at 1 am (local time) we touched down in Nanjing.
There was snow on the ground. Snow! It is freezing here - lovely, but freezing. After we got up, we wandered down to Xuanwu Lake. Lovely, but freezing.
Today I am practicing working. That is, I've got my laptop to connect to LiveJournal, Flickr and Wordpress via VPN in a beautiful little cafe. So far, everything has been rock solid, which is comforting. This is going to be my working environment for the next six months - laptop, VPN, beautiful little cafe. If I couldn't get it working, I would be in trouble, since I have two days work that I've carried with me from Melbourne on the basis that I'd be able to connect to the real Internet from here. Earlier today the VPN kept dropping out, which meant I kept butting my head against the great firewall. Now, though, everything is OK.
Besides the cold (which I expected, but weirdly Sophie didn't even though she knew...) we have nothing to complain about. Nanjing has turned on the weather for us. Blue sky beginning - that's unusual.
So far, so good
Tuesday was spent on planes and in the weird non-space that is the airports of the world.
On Wednesday at 1 am (local time) we touched down in Nanjing.
There was snow on the ground. Snow! It is freezing here - lovely, but freezing. After we got up, we wandered down to Xuanwu Lake. Lovely, but freezing.
Today I am practicing working. That is, I've got my laptop to connect to LiveJournal, Flickr and Wordpress via VPN in a beautiful little cafe. So far, everything has been rock solid, which is comforting. This is going to be my working environment for the next six months - laptop, VPN, beautiful little cafe. If I couldn't get it working, I would be in trouble, since I have two days work that I've carried with me from Melbourne on the basis that I'd be able to connect to the real Internet from here. Earlier today the VPN kept dropping out, which meant I kept butting my head against the great firewall. Now, though, everything is OK.
Besides the cold (which I expected, but weirdly Sophie didn't even though she knew...) we have nothing to complain about. Nanjing has turned on the weather for us. Blue sky beginning - that's unusual.
So far, so good