The Beginning…

My journey was good! I mean I had frozen yoghurt with fresh looking beeries on my stop over in Dubai!! That’s a BIIIIIG plus! No, seriously it was a long long journey! It took me almost 24 hours from door to door. But I made the right decision choosing Emirates… European(-ass)-sized seats, working Televisions from the 20th century, no fried noodles for breakfast and no living chickens in cages in the overhead bin. I mean I wouldn’t, never ever, accuse any Airline in the world to  be like that, not even a Chinese one… nooooo, never!!!! The reason i choose Emirates was just because their planes are really comfortable and their flights cheap…. and I mean their slogan is: «Be good to yourself. Fly Emirates », so I was almost forced to fly with them!! It clearly had nothing to do with their Luggage Policy that allows passengers to carry on 30 kilos of luggage… That needs to be clarified!

So I finally arrived at Guangzhou Airport (Yes, the city most of you have never heard of really has its own airport… I was surprised too!) and suddenly realized that I was actually in China. „Oh China!!“ (Info: You‘ll find yourself reading this expression very often in my Blog…) Guangzhou has a population of almost 13 Mio. and I kind of meet a decent part of its inhabitants in front of the airport, all waiting for a cab. Well after „only“ 1 hour and 30 minutes i eventually got into a cab that drove me to my hotel (it took another 60 minutes to get there..) where my friend was staying. And so I spent the next three nights in this „cozy“  hotel … No 3 stars hotel, maybe even no 2 stars…. Well, maybe none.. but I mean what do I want more? We had a room with two beeds (each at least 1.60 meters long), a television, a „bathroom“ (I will talk about the sanitary facilities in China later… I am thinking about giving it its own heading in my blog..) and condoms!!