Weather

To give a brief summary for the moment, our experience of China so far has been superb, and any fear of danger is the result of Asians not understanding how dangerous, by comparison, western cities are, or the result of Hong Kongese (?) being a little bit bigoted, I think. Everywhere we've been, our obvious helplessness has (sofartouchwood) not been taken advantage of, but has prompted strangers who do speak english to help us, without which we might not have been able to buy a ticket for the bus, get on the right bus, get off at the right stop, buy a sim card, buy food, etc etc.

The other striking thing about China has been the technological level. As far as I can see, any western talk of China "catching up" is now utter guff. We have so far seen nothing to suggest that they are "behind", and I wonder how long it will be before pundits realise they should be talking about the west "not being left too far behind".

Anyway, that's enough for now... I must go to bed and prepare for a bike tour tomorrow.

Oh yeah! This entry's called "weather" -- it's bloody breezing here! We weren't really prepared for this. I was beginning to wonder if all the warm stuff that was taking up loads of space in my bag was a total waste of space, but I'm glad I didn't send any home from South Africa because I'm wearing it ALL now and I'm indoors! That's thermals, two fleeces, and army socks, on top of what I've been wearing up until now. My basic mistake was to think we arrive in Hong Kong (it never gets too cold there) then we head south to Vietnam, where it never gets cold. Kind of true, but when we decided where was actually worth going in south China, Guangzhou and then Yangshuo, on the way to going south, we've actually gone something like North-West, right into a cold snap. Brrr!

written by  The Happy Couple on January 25, 2009 from Yangshuo, China
from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon
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