04 April 2005

Another glamorous night

Originally I suppose I thought that this was how it would work, and I'd mainly post here while actually on the road. In fact, when I'm away I'm either too busy or I don't have decent Internet access. In China broadband is now widely available even down to three-star level, and usually free, so it's a matter of time, and disinclination to write here when I have so much else to do, which is the problem.

So why now? It's just gone 4am, and it's been a not untypical night in this small Quanzhou hotel, where a shouting match between a couple (actually, I think, a prostitute and her client, but I won't quote the language here) in the room next door erupted into the corridor several times with the room door slammed 16 times or so before I gave up counting. There were also two attempts to open the connecting door to this room, and once whatever the dispute was had been worked out, a noisy female (dragging, clattering heels) departure down a neighbouring staircase.

For the last half-hour or so, a noisy diesel engine has been running just below the window, and there's the odd bang and thud of some maintenance, or possibly loading. At what is now 4.10am the cacophony of the everyday will be starting up soon.

Just a typical night in a Chinese hotel, with the typical complete indifference to the existence of other people which characterises the daytime, too.

Ah! Finally the engine has been turned off. What next, I wonder?
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