PS to yesterday:
who eats so near a street can easily end as traffic victim instead in the pot
maybe I could find even bigger ones, but I think the trend is recognizable
In Dongxing, Ann from the China mobile shop went to dinner with me, in Yangxi, Yuan from China Unicom wanted to take breakfast with me. There had been a problem with the blurred picture of my passport (She had tried several times to avoid the reflections) and we had to repeat it. So, we met at the shop, drove to a nearby restaurant and had several small dishes summing up to a great breakfast (and again I had no chance to pay, because she did it so fast by WeChat) and then we returned to the shop.
The problem is, that the software must identify my picture in the passport and the photo of me taken in the shop as one person. The passport has a foil over the photo that makes reflections and I have a kind of beard that doesn’t exist in the passport. But in the end, it worked. Meanwhile my SIM card had stopped working and Yuan tried to fix that problem, too. It was strange, my SIM card worked in her phone, her SIM card worked in my phone, my phone worked with WiFi. So, in the end, Yuan activated a new SIM card and then it worked.
It was 10:30, when I finally left Yangxi, but luckily, today it was only 49km, so I had still enough time. The first two hours, the wind showed me that also a shorter distance can be exhausting, but then it became better. In the beginning, I had a stop and a cyclist came. He had no luggage, only a Chinese flag, waving in the wind. He was a bit strange and when I resumed going I admittedly tried to be faster then he. And he, obviously tried to catch up (He had started later, because he had picked up a cigarette from the street). Slowly he came nearer, but then a small truck overtook me, and I could hide in his slipstream with some efforts and escaped ?
A few minutes later, I saw another Chinese bike traveller with flag (and luggage) on the opposite side of the street, but he didn’t hear me. And half an hour later, a group of 3 cyclists, this time without flag, but again not hearing me, maybe because of the strong wind.
Today, I saw the first street sign with Zhuhai and Shenzhen, my major stops in China. For me this is always exciting, because ideas and visions get a realistic touch.
Mr.G brought me near enough to the hotel that I could see it. My normal afternoon/evening routine began, but this time not only buying food and having dinner, I also bought a PC-mouse, because my touch pad doesn’t like my fingers anymore and sometimes, I hardly can do anything, because the cursor flips around and with wrong movements, I even can delete something, but at least don’t catch what I want.
Tomorrow will be a normal 106km tour, depending on wind and weather normal or special…
Today, I take an earlier rest, because the last night was less relaxing, because of strange neighbours. A man knocked at the door, a woman shouted, he shouted back, she opened and even after closing the door I clearly could hear them. That would be enough, but it happened 3 times like that and one time, he even knocked on my door, before he found the right one (there were two, mine and theirs.) Or was this more than one man?
