Breakfast in Harbin
"See China right in front of you," sings Bono in his killer U2 song, "Beautiful Day." Funny - I'd never picked that up before...
The good news is, last night was the last night we would be drinking jiu (which is a great relief, I can tell you). It kinda creeps up on you. Instead of drinking glasses and glasses of the stuff (Dad says the closest English translation of "jiu" is "rocket fuel" - no wonder the Chinese are 1 of only 3 countries to have put someone in space!) we just had one...but even an hour after finishing it I could feel it still absorbing into my system. Gumbe!
The good news is, last night was the last night we would be drinking jiu (which is a great relief, I can tell you). It kinda creeps up on you. Instead of drinking glasses and glasses of the stuff (Dad says the closest English translation of "jiu" is "rocket fuel" - no wonder the Chinese are 1 of only 3 countries to have put someone in space!) we just had one...but even an hour after finishing it I could feel it still absorbing into my system. Gumbe!
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