Wednesday, 30 September 2009

China



Well, here I am, writing this at about forty thousand feet on BA 38 flying back from Urumqi, Xinjiang (where they've been having the little misunderstandings recently - ie hacking each other to death) via Beijing, back to jolly old blighty.
The plane is packed - and I'm in the middle of a group of French tourists. Amazing - they're never going to get the Legion d'Honneur - they're knocking back the Australian Chardonay (even though there's Bordeaux on board) and stuffing in the beef stew. Two even ordered gin and tonics. Quel horreur !!

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