It's been a funny old day today. I was feeling a bit more positive about Kunming this morning. I upgraded to a suite(...!) which basically meant same poor standards, private space. I took a look around the bit of town I'm in and had a cuppa. There are bars and restaurants and shops etc. nearby so it's not all bad. I think the frustrating day lost travelling got to me a bit yesterday. There is next to no internet and Facebook, Twitter alongside Google, remain banned technology here, so no contact with the outside world pretty much.
I then went for an explore in the city centre. I was going to tell the tale in full but it wouldn't really be fair on the party involved so the salient points are these; Green Lake Park was very nice. Foreigner street was vibrant, lunch was fine. My travelling companion then had her Geraldine stolen from her pocket and the balance of the day was spent replacing said phone inbetween tears, ripe language and everything else that goes with having your phone nicked. Several hours later, a new phone was purchased and a degree of order was restored. I felt for her to be honest. I find giving sympathy and 'there there's' isnt a natural gift of mine, so chose to offer silence and a warm smile for the most part. The occasional suggestion that we break the problem down into manageable parts, rather than assume that the world was about to end, seemed reasonably well received, but I stopped short of writing out a gannt chart to make sure nothing was missed. Which was what I really wanted to do.
She did seem quite grateful for the support actually and I felt I'd done a decent thing - no more than anyone else in similar circumstances though.
For the record, the Apple shop in Kunming, of which I saw every single inch of several times over this afternoon, seemed very nice too.
Green Lake Park. That's about as interesting as Kunming gets.
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