OK, it’s been a while, but it wasn’t our fault, I promise!!! We couldn’t log onto the site for a week. Which, because it’s China, logically meant that the powers that be have tracked us down, read the controversial nature of our site and considered it dangerous dissident propaganda. Of course they were on their way to tracking Chris and I down, luckily I intercepted them and blamed Chris for the offending content. Chris won’t be heard from again, so please lets just move on and forget all of this unpleasantness.
China held it’s annual car alarm festival, traditionally referred to as New Year, in the last week. Harbin resembled Dublin on Good Friday with a healthy dose of Iraq mixed in for a week. Chinese New Year is traditionally the time when millions of Chinese travel for days on over crowded trains to go home and watch tv. The festival is the time of year when families reunite so businesses, restaurants, bars, clubs and shops all shut their doors. People set off copious amounts of fireworks, eat dumplings and play ma jiang, party-tastic!!!
