Weihai (威海)

So, you wake up, find yourself a window, and look out to remind yourself where you were. In front of you, there's a big white circular thing known as the moon.

… wait no, you lost me. It's day light, I remember full moon being about half a month ago, so that's … the sun? But I can look straight at it!

With this kind of visibility, it does raise the question of: "What do those observatories on the hill actually get to look at?"

It being sunday, we took the opportunity to see the city a little bit before we get stuck with university duties tomorrow. Impression number 1: "It's cold!" Australia finally gets warm and I go straight back to the cold. sigh

But it's good to be in a city again. The confusion, the swarming of people, and the fact that things are still open on a sunday. Weihai is fairly small by Chinese comparison (merely 2 million people), and occasionally it did show this in some of the stores we accidentally wondered in. They were open, they had people ready to serve about every 20 metres, and they were all staring at you as the only people to have accidentally wondered in at this time.

But we have discovered that the Chinese flag appears to be transported disassembled, presumably to make it easier to smuggle in your luggage, and comes with instructions of how to put it back together. If only the building set would also come with a ruler ...