BEYOND CHINA

We drove to Wenjiang for a meeting and more entertainment from the Chengdu agricultural research institute. Today’s bush tucker trial involved Smoked Quail, ducks feet, tripe and some form of testicle soup. The roads are now less crowded but open to the vagaries of random rural carts and animals.

I reckon the flight from Chengdu to Hong Kong is much quieter than the outbound leg but soon realise that it is the fact that I am now used to the Chinese communicating as if on speed. I visit my seat at Hong Kong airport starbuck’s and am relieved that Quantas are flying. I have an exit seat but it’s next to the most an arrogant man who disenfranchises the stewards immediately.