At last! Internet facilities are pretty thin on the ground here, Ijust hope that things are better in China. So far so good - 3 and a half hour flight from London, 3 hours ahead and a half empty plane, so good service from BA and they even managed not to lose my bag (for which I had to pay excess - painful but inevitable!!!). Well, having arrived with all the enthusiasm of a condemned prisoner being sent to the Gulag Archipelago in the snowy wastes of Siberi...