The Beijing Cold....

I had a very good meeting with the university president and deans this morning, despite suffering visibly from a terrible cold I got in Beijing. (The president was very understanding and very solicitous and offered to get me a doctor, but I assured him it was just a cold.) We didn’t head out to visit the surrounding area, as we had planned, and I caught up on my sleep today. My colleagues and I had a great walk through the super-charged and modern shopping area of Chengdu and then a dinner that involved about 70 bowls of quite tasty treats (I didn’t go for the chicken feet, I’m afraid, but I did eat everything else). The Sichuan cuisine is very spicy (sometimes painfully so) and truly delicious.

Tomorrow it’s off to Guangzhou.