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Breakfast on Monday was a choice of English or Chinese. We had a complete role reversal as I chose English (bacon, fried eggs, hash browns, baked beans, toast and orange juice) whilst Keith chose Chinese (tasteless rice porridge, dumpling like bread and a hard boiled egg). The Chinese proprietress told him that he wouldn’t like it and she was right.
We planned a fairly relaxed day exploring the historic walled town of Dali. In ...
Yunnan and Me
... The city actually used to be called Zhongdian but ten years ago, in an effort to attract tourists, they re-named it Shangri-La after the fabled paradise in the novel The Lost Horizon. The Old Town's nice enough but it's full of tourist shops amd guesthouses and most of it's pretty tacky. I met a Spanish lad, Pedro, and we decided to have a few drinks and stay up for the Spain v France match (it starts at 2:45am here).
The next day we had a lazy one and I ...
The Kindness of Strangers
... asking if I needed anything, searching for food that would be easy on my sensitive stomach, making runs to the pharmacy for me and telling me to drink my Gatorade because I needed to replenish electrolytes. With a plentiful amount of compassion, Joe looked after me. He cared for me. He wanted to make sure I was okay. He arranged his daily schedule to check on me every couple of hours. This is not the behavior I expected from Joe. After all, we're ...
We head south to Dali
... other side. The views are amazing and all the crops make the land seem like it's covered by a patchwork quilt.
The area leading into Dali is full of farm lands mainly rice , corn and tobacco as well as a huge variety of fruit orchards. The farm work tends to be done mainly by hand with small areas for each crop almost like strip cropping. We saw lots of farm workers and couldn't get over how much each person (usually women) carried in the baskets ...
Two days in Dali!
... was talking to Jack about how things were going with Maomao. He’s about 26/27 and she’s about 25 and it was like talking to a little kid at school – all giddy. He got really excited (to the point of quivering) when talking about her, hugging me and he said they kissed at the end of the previous night. The way he was talking, it was like it was his first kiss and knowing Chinese people – it probably was!! He really liked her and ...