193 in Shenzhen 1 Hospital 1


深圳口岸医院 – 皇岗口岸生活区1号

After writing yesterday’s diary, I went to the international Travel Healthcare Center or tried to go there….
The address that I had found was not the right one, but at least it was a hospital. I asked the nurse at the entrance, she went with me to a doctor, this doctor went with me to another doctor and he made a rough sketch of the way to the Healthcare center. 

There, I talked to a nurse, on the phone, she talked to a doctor, he then talked with me, after that again with her and the result was that I should go to their head quarter, because here, they couldn’t do that certificate thing for me. The nurse brought me to a guy with a car who would go there. Together, they forced my bike in his car.
Later, I saw, that my bike mirror again was broken under this torture.


Same procedure again. I ask the nurse she sends me to a counter, the man at the counter takes my papers to another man. They read very carefully, nearly 10min, then send me to a doctor. This doctor wants to help me but is unsure if she is allowed to. So, she asks her chief. This chief tells her to ask the chief of the chief. This chief fist says no. I tell “my” doctor that in Zhuhai the chief had said yes, but it was a matter of sending or picking up the papers the next day what was impossible for me. Meanwhile she had taken pictures of my papers and sent to her chief (or chief of the chief). Now she calls again with my new information. A few minutes later she gets a call that she can come to her boss. She hurries there and some minutes later comes back and tells me that I can come tomorrow morning with an empty stomach between 8-9!
With this good news, I tried to get back home. First, I saved the location of the hospital on mapsme, so I could feed my route planner for the next morning. Then I tried to find my way to the route from the port to Hasmik’s apartment that I had used yesterday. It was the same problem as yesterday. If I used bike lanes at least where cycling on the road was expressly prohibited, I just wanted to avoid that the same policemen as yesterday would see me ignoring the rules. But today I may have found the right balance between a decent and a determined cyclist and came back without detours and without confrontations with police.

Why mapsme at home did not remember the saved location of the hospital, I don’t know, I just know that the same GPS-signal interpreted by google maps had pointed in a river. And I know that I also had forgotten something, namely the name of that hospital. Both facts combined brought work for a good hour until I had the name (Shenzhen port hospital) the address, the location on a map and finally the route there.

You could ask if that is worth it, the address could be enough or the location, and I just could go in that direction and ask, maybe it wouldn’t take longer than all my preparations.
Sometimes that can and will work and sometimes even my triple-secured planning doesn’t help if the data and the reality don’t fit together.
I just feel better when I had prepared something even if it doesn’t help, and I always had something to regret when I didn’t. Why didn’t I write down the name of the hospital and take a photo of the street name?
And I gave up relying on my sense of orientation, too many times I was disappointed by it, at least two times yesterday. One time, after a detour caused be a bike lane I tried to find back and minutes later realized that I was going back were I had been coming from – a stupid feeling. The other example is Hasmik’s apartment. In my feeling, still the windows point to South and the opposite is true. I had to go the way from the entrance to the lift and from the lift to the apartment deliberately to understand how I could confuse North and South but still I don’t get rid of that wrong image.
So, I better plan!

Shenzhen Port Hospital深圳口岸医院

No.1, Life Area, Huanggang Port, Shenzhen.皇岗口岸生活区1号

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