Arrival 17.06.11

Arrived at ShenYang, Long flight. Plane from Dublin was late so really had to run when we arrived in Amsterdam as our flight to Beijing was already boarding. Food on flight was terrible, I got no sleep but at least Leon got about 2 hours before touchdown. Only saving grace about flight was that we had our own TV sets on the back of each seat.

ShenYang is warm but not too hot about 23 degrees, not sweat worthy. The city seems dirtier than I remember, dust covers a lot of cars and Buses as we navigate the gauntlet that is the busy roads of the ever growing city by the river.There is a lot of building work going on also which may explain the dust, new apartment complexes are popping up all over the place and replacing parks and other areas that were "not being used". Went to restaurant I was in 2 years ago, also in worse condition with a large crack going up the outside window, food was fine but the place specializes in seafood and we are on a strict no seafood plan due to Japan Radiation problem. Dont want to suffer from jet-lag so plan is to sleep from 5pm until next morning.