V’s cough is getting much worse. She has hardly slept for days so we decided to take a rest day. Up at 10ish. Pancakes and toast for breakfast with knives and forks ! By 12 my V was back in bed. I took the opportunity to make some calls, send some emails, surf the web and play with some programming on the blog – that got me sidetracked onto a remote desktop connection with the Stern office and I spent another hour sorting out pc problems on their LAN – I couldn’t resist :). Also downloaded new podcasts and Dr Who eps. Happiness.

In the late afternoon we took another longer stroll around the town and realized that possibly we should have spent another day here but we have booked the bus to Xi’an tomorrow. We are both feeling a bit off. Probably the lack of sleep and V’s cough.

The evening dissolved over a good dinner of stir-fry beef with rice, a couple of beers and relaxing conversation with a friendly Swiss lady travelling solo. We finally got the meal quantity correct. One dish and a small rice is more than enough for us. We are almost done with season 1 of the West Wing – what a win that was.

[Pictures: Anyone for braai bricketts the size of footballs ? See – we did nothing]

– Posted from my iPhone via Wifi