WEEK 4! Stu arrives - start of the next phase (10 July)

Today was an early start, and the start of the next phase of travels... through China with Stu. I shared a car to the airport to Claire and Morris and said goodbye to them there, and waited for Stu's flight to arrive.
It was 4 hours late! And the only place available to sit and have a drink and a sandwich was evil Starbucks! I managed to pass four hours or so reading books and writing my blog (off-line). I am sure it was much worse for Stu spending 8 hours pacing around Moscow Airport. Then he arrived, and we got him to the hotel so he could recover from jet lag!

New experience for the day - eating a Japanese pear. Juicy, but not too sweet - a good source of water though! We had an easy day and ate in "my local", where the staff are very attentive and I ate some more unidentifiable meat - this time in the form of tubes. Stu had a nice vegetarian option.