What a bizarre experience....we all headed off to Guilin this morning for our Chinese health check to get our Residents Permit (currently we are foreign aliens!!). I've been a RN for nearly 30 years and never have I experienced such an examination. We were split into groups of 3 and then headed off into different rooms, no-one spoke any English and we were prodded along like cattle. Some of us got the giggles and ended up with stern looks from one of the doctors ...

Finally at 1230 we touchdown in China and I am about to start my new adventure. The airport was deserted and the customs people as sleepy as I was....a very quick entry was to be had!!! I am relieved to find my driver had waited for me and that all my baggage had arrived with me. Walked out of the airport to be met by bright neon lights and wondered if I had been put down in Las Vegas...what a sight so early in the morning!! Will get to see Guilin later in the we...