I now have 17% of the episode downloaded with 13 hours to go. That's better than before, when I looked earlier it said I had 14 days which was kind of depressing ( Read more... )

Clearly my listening abilities are really bad. I had prepared myself for a 12 hour journey because I thought the woman selling me my ticket said: "You leave at 8.30am and you arrive at 8.30". Accordingly, I had prepared myself for a 12 hour journey of pain and suffering. The journey was still quite painful but it turns out what she said was the ( Read more... )

After a three hours bus trip, leaving at 8am this morning I arrived in Lijiang this morning. The bus was a medium sized bus and I was squashed in the back. It had a high ceiling though and was quite well-ventilated so I didn't have too many difficulties in terms of breathing. The only problem was the very grotty looking girl on my left kept falling ( Read more... )

Excuse typos. Again, this keyboard is a bit of a shocker. It doesn't respond!( Shocking bus trips but the Bamboo Sea at last .... )

I'm in Leshan. It's really hot but I'm not complaining because the sunny, cheerful heat is a change to the somewhat cold and depressing mountains around Kanding. I just realised I'm a sun person and need a lot of sunlight even though I call myself a creature of darkness and spend a lot of time inside and in the shade. I like there to be sunlight ( Read more... )