July 14th 2015 - A Photo of record
Saw my first Humming bird today, was delirious with excitement, took a good few shots, none of them very good. This is a photo of record.
From today's Journal:-
Woke feeling tired this morning, everybody is struggling with the time change. I start the day feeling so tired it's ridiculous and sleep intermittently throughout the day. It's not just me, we're all doing it.
In China I wrote of my dining room adventures, never expecting it would be the same here, but it is. What is it about hotels and toasters that don't work? Really, how is it that a country who sends spacecraft to other planets cannot make a toaster that browns bread?
And what's with this sweetened white substance that masquerades as butter? It doesn't look like butter, is the wrong colour, has the consistency of mushy hommus, is sweetened (well, everything here is sweetened to within an inch of its life) and is passed off a butter. At least in China they served real New Zealand butter.
I thought the Chinese wafer thin, over cooked, manufactured bacon was a travesty. Now I know the Chinese were serving American bacon cooked to suit the American taste.
Don't get me started on the waffles and pastries they imagine I want for breakfast. A man could die of starvation for want of any real and nutritious food in an American dining room. Either that, or assume the proportions of a stegosaurus from eating sugar laden rubbish at the trough of indulgence.
July 14th 2015 - A Photo of record
Saw my first Humming bird today, was delirious with excitement, took a good few shots, none of them very good. This is a photo of record.
From today's Journal:-
Woke feeling tired this morning, everybody is struggling with the time change. I start the day feeling so tired it's ridiculous and sleep intermittently throughout the day. It's not just me, we're all doing it.
In China I wrote of my dining room adventures, never expecting it would be the same here, but it is. What is it about hotels and toasters that don't work? Really, how is it that a country who sends spacecraft to other planets cannot make a toaster that browns bread?
And what's with this sweetened white substance that masquerades as butter? It doesn't look like butter, is the wrong colour, has the consistency of mushy hommus, is sweetened (well, everything here is sweetened to within an inch of its life) and is passed off a butter. At least in China they served real New Zealand butter.
I thought the Chinese wafer thin, over cooked, manufactured bacon was a travesty. Now I know the Chinese were serving American bacon cooked to suit the American taste.
Don't get me started on the waffles and pastries they imagine I want for breakfast. A man could die of starvation for want of any real and nutritious food in an American dining room. Either that, or assume the proportions of a stegosaurus from eating sugar laden rubbish at the trough of indulgence.