Grounded until 8 January in the sleepy hamlet of Nanchong (population: a mere couple of million).
While I’m busy auditioning promising local vocalists, I’ll chuck a bit of the archive your way.
The latest important news: at PVG they confiscated my indestructible 10,000 mAh beer-bottle opener.
It served faithfully for five years. Xiaomi doesn’t make them like that any more. All the aluminium goes into trains now.
Since 28 November, China has banned batteries without the mandatory 3C certification mark from being carried on board aircraft.
Two weeks earlier, it would have slipped through.
Now I’m facing dehydration, delirium and opening bottles with my teeth like it’s freshers’ week π«£
