We have nice late start today, at least enough for a little lie in. We are in lower terrain now and, as opposed to a barren freezing landscape, the mountains and valleys are sewn with snow.
We stop for a toilet break / photo stop on a very long road that goes straight over the curve of the earth. It turns into an hour long stop as Lucinda negotiates on our behalf on the phone to her boss in the UK. Considering that I often don’t get reception on my phone in rural parts of England and that we are stopped far from anywhere, the Chinese seem to have been thorough in getting mobile reception across the country. The end result is that UK to Oz will be paying for hotels while we are in these arctic conditions.
We stop in a town I don’t recall ever knowing the name of at another primitive hotel with even more primitive toilets, which could do with a service from portaloo men armed with large sewer vacuums. It does at least have radiators in the rooms though.
I have dinner with Laurie at a one dish restaurant, but they are the best beef noodles I have had so far and it costs only 5 Yuan.
Later, we go for a walk looking for a karaoke bar. We hear music on the street, but whenever we walk towards its apparent source, it seems to go on further along the road. It takes us a while to figure out that they have installed singing streetlamps here.
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