Night out

That evening we are all taken out for dinner and join a large group from the same company at the typical round table.  5 of the people at the table I have never met before and don’t even speak English.  The drinking soon starts and they are regularly  “Gambei” each other (finishing off the drink). I wisely don’t take part.  The photo is of our table early in the evening.

The next morning in the meeting room, you can smell the booze coming out of their pores.  But they didn’t seem any worse for wear.

That evening we fly to Beijing on the first leg of our return flight.  When we land in Beijing, the air is unbelievably bad.  Over powering smell of sulfur and smog in the air.  I get 1.5 hrs sleep that night and I am very tired when I have to get up at 4:45am for the morning flight – I am starting to wonder why I put myself through this….