I'll keep this brief because I'm feeling decidedly fluey. I guess I'm relieved that my body decided to hold off being ill until I got off the road. I should be grateful for that much! :) Stephen has just reminded me that I tend to be overdescriptive (he even went so far as to say he should read on an empty stomach!) so please be warned that I'm ( 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... )

But just wanted to recount an interesting conversation I had over breakfast. There was a woman sitting at the same breakfast table with me. I committed the ultimate faux pas of asking if she was German. She gave me a look - understandable given that she is Danish. *sigh* It turns out that she's in Kunming for a meeting but for the past 10 years she ( Read more... )

See some photos of the Stone Forest here. To be honest, the Stone Forest was interesting but it wasn't fascinating. Have a look at the photos though because they're really nice!( Stone Forests, Stony French People and other interesting things )

I woke up this morning and had a delicious breakfast - toast with jam and coffee. I also had yoghurt, potato, pineapple and watermelon. Umm, they also had the salted egg I like so much that you're supposed to eat with congee but I ate plain - only eating the yolks as is my bad habit :)( Museum and chats with random people )

I deliberately tried to sleep in today, knowing that I was going to have a long day of bus rides and airports ahead of me.( Pig flu, deserted airports, funny pronounciation )

ie I now have Internet access again and my gmail account works again. I will do a full update later this evening - the Bamboo Sea had no computer access so I wrote up 10 pages by hand which I will try to decipher tonight :) Suffice to say it was fabulous!!!!! A very long and arduous journey to get there but definitely worth it although I will have ( Read more... )