LOOKING BACK AT FRUSTRATING JINAN LAST WEDNESDAY

As the month ends on this public holiday weekend in England we are bathed in glorious warm sunshine under blue skies and with the gardens all in bloom it really makes you appreciate how luck we are. I was able to stagger on to near ten last night before heading up to bed, the house is upside down with the new kitchen work which won't make much progress as Monday is a public holiday and everything is hard to find, we will go for dinner at the Dog this evening and have a ready made microwave dinner Monday. Hopefully if I have any energy left I'll make a start editing Hong Kong tonight. Meanwhile lets look back at the frustrating city of Jinan where we landed last Wednesday, we should have stayed there worked out a plan and then started early, instead they had us in a town further off, rotten hotel and arrived at the end of the rush as the trolleys vanished. Truth never seemed to come into a conversation as the Chinese hate to lose face admitting a lack of knowledge, it was generally reassuring that at hoe the workmanship and finishing is as bad as most Chinese items bought here.