Back in Japan today, got back last night from Shenzhen.
Yuko and I will fly out to Shenzhen tomorrow, where she’ll have a bit of a break down there, while I work.

Shenzhen is a much nicer place than Shanghai (well, the Pudong area of Shanghai where I was working) and Changsha. A bit hot there though.

What I was impressed with though, is Hong Kong (well, what I saw of it via transit to Shenzhen on the mainland). You can really see the British influence there. All the road signs are the same as the UK (billingual like in Wales, except second language is naturally Chinese). Driving standards are pretty high (i.e lanes are actually used), and they drive on the left of the road. As soon as you cross the border in Shenzhen, it’s high-speed chaos again!!!
Hong Kong airport was very nice too, and is up there with Singapore as being one of the nicest airports around. I was most happy to find a bottle of Wolfblass Platinum label wine. 125 quid a bottle!!! However, Yuko and I have tried the Black and Grey labels (the next two levels down) when I got them in Singapore airport. Apparently, Wolfblass only make 300 bottles of Platinum label available to the whole of Asia, and that batch had only just arrived at Hong Kong airport. So I was a very happy chap, despite the expense, and Yuko was really happy when I got back.

Well, at the moment, I’m catching up with the news. The BBC website is banned in China, and BBC World News on TV is heavily censored. I lost count of how many times certain news items were censored. In fact, I never knew this happened during Hu’s visit to Washington DC.