visas

(I wrote this as an email to several people, in a free-ranging style, which, as is usual for me, didn't follow the rules of punctuation, capitalization, or good sense. It turned out to be rather long, so I am posting it here, to be edited, refined, deleted, whatever, at a later date...)

I woke up early, happy to go to the complimentary breakfast buffet and sample a variety of Chinese food: steamed buns, various hot and cold vegetables, pickles and so on. As a solo traveller, or even two people, you rarely get a run of the cuisine like this, so I took advantage of the opportunity and dug in.