A late start, we had a 7:30 wake up call. Croissants for brekkie, and a visit to a jade factory where Brigitte was in here element. Mum and Brigitte bought things, ali and I bought a hot choc. We drove through the horrendous traffic to the airport where I quizzed our guide ‘Tiger’ about environmental things. We had a full Chinese meal at the airport, and then flew to Chengdu (delayed again). On board, our in-flight snack was a bag of roasted peas but they were gorgeous. Quick loo stop, in the disabled toilet again because I refused to use Chinese toilets and didn’t for the whole trip. However, the sign on the door said ‘deformed man end place’. Me thinks the translation was wrong.
We arrived in Chengdu to a heat camera monitoring our body temperature. Anyone would think that we had loads of diseases in England! However, we couldn’t get out of the airport because the pop idol winner was coming home at the exact some time as us, so we followed her out with loads of teenagers screaming and taking pictures.
Chengdu was just 50 miles from last years earthquake epicentre. What I didn’t understand was that when it struck, people then lived in tents during the aftershocks! This doesn’t make sense to me. However, people now value love and family over money as they lost so much, but gained too.
We had a lovely hotel with dubbed tv, even though the original tv programme was in English. We ate at a local restaurant and I found my favourite meal, chicken with nuts and chilli, a local delicacy.
We arrived in Chengdu to a heat camera monitoring our body temperature. Anyone would think that we had loads of diseases in England! However, we couldn’t get out of the airport because the pop idol winner was coming home at the exact some time as us, so we followed her out with loads of teenagers screaming and taking pictures.
Chengdu was just 50 miles from last years earthquake epicentre. What I didn’t understand was that when it struck, people then lived in tents during the aftershocks! This doesn’t make sense to me. However, people now value love and family over money as they lost so much, but gained too.
We had a lovely hotel with dubbed tv, even though the original tv programme was in English. We ate at a local restaurant and I found my favourite meal, chicken with nuts and chilli, a local delicacy.
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