I need to be honest. I am missing Facebook. I miss knowing what’s going on in the world. What’s happening with my family and friends. Funny videos; clever quotes; Facebook stalking. Nothing for 11 days!
Will sent me a text last night asking what I thought of the Australian batting collapse. FB is usually my source of news (and no doubt fake news) and it was strange to not even realise Australia were playing!
My Dad is cruising past the North Pole, and my brother is in Europe. I have no clue what they are up to.
Occasionally (and since I’m being honest – usually only ever so briefly) I think that I need to give up FB. It does occupy a fair bit of my time. 
Whilst I can’t access any social media in China – I can see that I have notifications. I wonder what those 13 FB, 20 Twitter, 3 Instagram and 9 Workplace notifications say? I’m not going to know for at least another week! (The 173 emails don’t worry me so much 😉 )
Dave and I often find amusement in signs whilst travelling. Sometimes you hear people referring to the language used when Chinese is translated into English as ‘Chinglish’. I am sure the Chinese are equally amused when we translate signs from English into Chinese.
Here are a few that have amused us so far. I forgot to take one yesterday of the sign that said ‘NO SMOING’…
Today we are heading further upstream to our disembarkation point at Chongqing. We had already booked an excursion to ‘The Ghost City’ in Fengdu for the afternoon, but decided to spend the day lazing about instead. We will be busy for the next few days with Hang Zhou in Chengdu so its good to have some rest.
The temperature range today is from 26 – 38ºc and around 80% humidity. If you’re planning a trip to China I’d suggest September/October might be a little better or in the Northern Hemisphere Spring in April/May. Its good not to be cold like it is in Wagga at the moment, but 38ºc is overdoing it a tad. The air-conditioning works pretty well in our cabin, thankfully 🙂
The extra quilt underneath us worked a treat and we both had a pretty good night’s sleep. Breakfast was slightly later at 7:45am, then we had our ‘disembarkation briefing’ in preparation for tomorrow’s departure. It took over an hour to explain to everyone what the plan was. Lots of stupid/repeated questions didn’t help, but at least we now know we will be catching the high-speed train from Chongqing back to Chengdu tomorrow. That should be fun. Seems the Chinese do fast trains almost as well as the Japanese do. I need to remember my low expectations rule, but here’s hoping!
Meals
Breakfast and Lunch : The usual Buffet. The same food seems to be reappearing in new guises!
Dinner: As out tour leader put it “Special Wel-fare Dinner” I hope he means “Fare-well” haha 🙂
Note: the ‘free’ warm coke!
Before dinner – I used up my vouchers and had a grasshopper, or two (OK three!) 