deepfried

Seems I should keep writing from where I last wrote, if only I could access my blog…. Damn censors.I think I was talking about our 24 km walk, which we did. We took a bus out of town and met up with some american dudes (brett and rudy) who we chatted to the whole time – very interesting guys. We walked through farmland, along the river, through small towns, crossed the river a couple of times, all in the presence of the magnificent karst limestone mountains – fantastic! We had lunch with some chinese english students who were happy to chat with us and help us with the menu. We were pretty tired when we got home on the overcrowded bus, and had short nap and shower before heading out for some jiaozi and beers. We met up with rudy and brett as well, and had a chat till about 2.Yesterday we chilled out in the morning before making the 22 hour trip to kunming where we are now. there was a lady in a horible pink coat on our train and a group of funny chinese. We could talk right in front of them in english and even tried some rather rude phrases. We headed on down to the food carriage for some rice wne to celebrate the (unknown at that stage) end of johnny howard. We also chatted with a french dude, I caught up 3 days in the journal, and breathed in the cigarette smoke of train police, chainsmoking under the no smoking sign.22 hours. We thought we would have cabin fever, but it wasn't that bad, we slept a lot and ate a buttload. Mmm, snacks. That snacking continued on today when span and I explored kunming. we ate a buttload of all kinds of things at this market where they had taste testers, hot, sour, hot, cold, spicy, bland, bitte andjust plain weird… we ended the day with a massage from 2 old blind men… which sounds wrong, but that's their job!Tomorrow we will go for a run (to give the chinese something to stare at for a change), check out some tai chi and then head for visa extensions, plane tickets, and an overnight train to the jungle – whopee!