Just when I had got used to the diabolical roads, Chengdu
I had been given a contact at CBBC by the director yesterday. For those of you with kids, you can guess what I thought! The address proved to be wrong and the lady at CBBC instructed me to board a taxi to Pacific store. In the days before mobile phones it was convention to rendezvous with friends outside Marks and Spencer, when visiting a strange town. Today I was reminded of the time that I discovered that Wakefield
Unfortunately my impromptu translator had written down the address for the wrong Pacific store. It took me Two hours to eventually make it to the meeting which was a five minute walk from the hotel. John Stones suggested that we all spent a week alone in a country that hardly spoke English, he obviously knows that it’s trial by ordeal!
Cherry was very accommodating at the CBBC (the China-Britain Business Council) and I feel that I am finally beginning to unravel a bit of how the Chinese system works.
A text arrives and I hot foot it back to the hotel. The break through at last as the cavalry from the Chengdu Agriculture Division have arrived. I am whisked away to their HQ and spend a very informative afternoon talking with them.
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