day 164: 会宁 (huining) = 0 km

A day in a little town.

I wander around looking for decent chocolate:

I write up yesterday’s post, fix some things on the site and try to stock up on movies.

The afternoon sees me hanging out in a little store next to my hotel, when a girl comes in with this:

“海洋宝宝” - a kind of awkward translation could be “ocean baby”.

Sells for 0,5rmb a piece, gets bigger when put in water.

“Don’t touch them, they’re alive!” she says in an excited voice and smiles happily:

Looking at what appears to be chunks of rubber floating there in the plastic bag, I figure it doesn’t really matter whether they’re alive or not.

It’s good to love little things, even if it’s for the wrong reasons.

Soundtrack: Jethro Tull - “Thick As A Brick”

—total: 2112,1km