I should just like to explain that posts to this blog have been fitful, partly due to a lack of time, but partly because access and/or the ability to post have sometimes been difficult. In China as I explained earlier no Google products were accessible via normal hotel wifi. More recently in Egypt I could access Blogger but posting anything was impossible. So along the way there have been various issues. I should have set up a separate website that would not have been blacklisted or restricted for political/security reasons.
Apologies to all, this blog has been interrupted for the past 6 days – I have just emerged from behind the Great Firewall. I managed to make a couple of small posts by using my mobile phone to access the blog using 3G/4G data. However this was very slow and my data limit was reached quickly. Trying to access www.blogger.com or any Google-related site using hotel or other wifi was not possible. I suppose the Chinese have their reasons, it is their country and they can do whatever they think best. Before coming to China I should have set up a web-access email site not associated with any of the big USA companies. Once in China I should have got a local sim card. However things in China were pretty hectic. On arrival at Shanjie (Thursday 27 April) we were greeted like heroes, with champagne, flowers, reporters, photographers. Then after very many photographs we went off to the hotel, which was full of airshow people, and had dinner...
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